Both Uses of
quarantine
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Monte Cristo although uninhabited, yet serves occasionally as a refuge for the smugglers and pirates who come from Corsica, Sardinia, and Africa, and if it becomes known that we have been there, we shall have to perform quarantine for six days on our return to Leghorn.†
Chpt 31-32 *
- I took a week to go, another to return, four days of quarantine, and forty-eight hours to stay there; that makes three weeks.†
Chpt 83-84
Definition:
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(quarantine) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease