LAZARETTE

lazaretto, lazaret, lazarette, lazar house, pesthouse

(noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

lazarette (plural lazarettes)

Obsolete spelling of lazaret.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 December 2024

INTUITIVELY

(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”


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Coffee Trivia

Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.

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