Definition of "lazarettos" [lazarettos]

• Plural form of lazaretto. (noun)

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• "It was necessary everywhere to build lazarettos, in which to confine the unfortunate victims of a disease at once pestilential and incurable."
• "British soldiers storming batteries, of doctors passing nights in plague wards of lazarettos, and other instances of martyrdom?"
• "Now his object in thus exposing himself to infection and disease was not that he might gratify some crotchet, or get a name with the world, but that from personal experience of the unutterable miseries of such places as these lazarettos were, he might be better able to suggest the needful improvements and remedies."