LAZARETTO

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LAZARETTO or

LAZAR

LAZAR

HOUSE

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

is a

hospital

for the reception of poor persons suffering from the plague, leprosy or other infectious or contagious diseases. A

peculiar

PECULIAR

use of " lazaretto " is found in the application of the

term

TERM

, now obsolete, to a place in the after-

part

PART

of a merchant

vessel

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

for the storage of provisions, &c.
Lazzarone, a name now often applied generally to beggars, is an Italian

term

TERM

, particularly used of the poorest class of Neapolitans, who, without any fixed abode, live by odd jobs and fishing, but chiefly by begging.

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