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A.Word.A.Day--lazaretto Do you wish to receive A.Word.A.Day in your mailbox every day? Subscribe here. Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio lazaretto (laz-uh-RET-o) also lazaret or lazarette (laz-uh-RET) noun 1. A hospital treating contagious diseases. 2. A building or ship used as a quarantine station. 3. Often lazaret. A storage space between the decks of a ship. [Italian lazzaretto : lazzaro, lazar (from Late Latin Lazarus.) + Italian dialectal Nazareto, popular name for a hospital maintained in Venice by the Church of Santa Maria di Nazaret.] "The station consisted of a wharf and boathouse, warehouse, disinfecting house with three steam chambers, two detention barracks, barrack and kitchen building, pump house, surgeon's house, officers' quarters, lazaretto (a `leper's house' or isolation hospital), and a convalescent building. Lucaccini, Luigi F., The Public Health Service on Angel Island., Public Health Reports, 11 Jan 1996. This week's theme: toponyms. X-Bonus The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. -Albert Einstein

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