sanitary cordon

noun

1. cordon sanitaire.

Example Sentences

"Today we can affirm that the West's plans to isolate Russia by surrounding us with a sanitary cordon have been a fiasco," Lavrov told Russian diplomats at an event at his ministry after returning from a nearly week-long tour of Africa.

From Reuters

After Guatemala’s government erected the first sanitary cordon around the impoverished municipality of Patzun on April 5 to contain the virus, hundreds of cut-off residents began putting up rags and white cloths in a call for help.

From Reuters

“Guests will be accompanied to their flights and transfers, organised by the company, through a sanitary cordon of isolation,” Costa Cruises said.

From Reuters

Probably no sanitary cordon nor any quarantine will invariably and completely exclude cholera, since it is transmissible by living men and by water and by fomites of various descriptions, and, worst of all, by men who neither exhibit its characteristic symptoms nor are conscious of the poison which they conceal and disseminate.

From Project Gutenberg

Sometimes there’s no substitute for what we call a sanitary cordon.”

From New York Times