lazarette
/ˌlæzəˈrɛt/
noun
- A small storage room or compartment on a ship, used for storing supplies or equipment.
- The crew stored the emergency rations in the lazarette below deck.
- We found the old maps stored in the ship's lazarette.
- The captain kept extra ropes and sails in the lazarette.
- A building or area used for quarantine of people or animals with infectious diseases.
- The government built a lazarette on the island to prevent the spread of disease.
- The port had a lazarette where sick sailors were isolated.
- During the outbreak, the town turned an old barn into a lazarette.
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