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leprosarium

n. A place or institution (such as a colony, house or hospital used) for the treatment of leprosy.

Usage examples of "leprosarium".

Even the Medzice church-which we children steered clear of as though it were a leprosarium -was built of wood.

The nun could, if she knew of his condition, banish him to a leprosarium as ably as any friar or priest.

The only leprosarium in the continental United States still exists at Carville.

We are currently keeping her in the old Leprosarium, the windows of which have been bricked up.

There were only a handful of leper colonies, or leprosariums, left in the world and none of them was affiliated with the name Alma.

He left 20 sous (equal to one livre) a year in perpetuity to the leprosarium of Coucy-la-Ville so that its inmates “.