Definition of "lazarette" [lazarette]

• Obsolete spelling of lazaret. (noun)

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• "Blake's testimony indicated that the vessel's problems began when a hatch to a stern compartment - known as a lazarette - somehow opened, and that area flooded and knocked out pumps crucial to steering."
• "Scarcely had they departed, when the table was removed; and just beneath where they had been sitting a circular plug closing the entrance to what is known as the "lazarette" was lifted, and out came"
• "Here, too, since she was to be eaten and since the taboo had no bearing upon one condemned to be cooked, the thin little Mary from the lazarette was tumbled trussed upon the floor among the many blacks who had teased and mocked her for being fattened by Van Horn for the eating."