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lazaret
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lazaret [¦laz·ə¦ret]
(naval architecture)
A space between decks above the afterpeak.


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As political, social and economic change intensified in the mid-eighteenth century, neighborly tolerance diminished and jails, pesthouses, or unheated attics and sheds increasingly became the habitats of the mad.
When Menninger's The Crime of Punishment was published in 1968, the New York Times called it "a thunderous, plain-speaking indictment of traditional law enforcement," while Life, labeling it "a model of rationalism," proclaimed: "Read this book and weep-and pray that Karl Menninger may be heard in our chambers of injustice and the pesthouses we call penitentiaries.
 
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