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Meanings of leper colony in English

Russian
лепрозорий
Portuguese
gafaria
Spanish
leprosorio

A place where leprous people are isolated from the rest of the population.

лепрозорий
Usage of leper colony in English
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In 1844, the New Brunswick government turned Sheldrake into a leper colony.
Bones to Ashes
2
The Island of Molokai, the leper colony, lay not far off.
The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls
3
The doctor sacrificing his life in a leper colony is an extreme example.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
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Do you think Brinkley Court is a leper colony or what is it?
Right Ho, Jeeves
5
Create convict settlement for innocent people, now we'll be a leper colony, he texted.
News.com.au
6
I guess for a leper colony it ain't so bad.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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My heart seemed to be purified, said one elderly man in this once-isolated leper colony.
Reuters
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By the way they acted now, she might have just escaped from a leper colony.
American empire: blood and iron
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We'd have been as welcome as a leper colony.
Nocturnal
10
Maybe even build a leper colony for them.
Reuters
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You will be sent to a leper colony.
The Disposable Male
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Honestly, we were like a leper colony here after Cardiff, but most of them stuck with me.
The Guardian
13
Sale was for the benefit of her husband leper colony, which is twelve miles from her palace.
The new yorker
14
Robben Island has served as a lunatic asylum, leper colony and prison throughout the 340 years since European settlers arrived.
The Irish Times
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Croatia was ejected from this leper colony by virtue of the death of its megalomaniac autocrat and his replacement by ex-communists.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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The station was now a sepulchre of contagion, as forbidden and untouchable as a leper colony had been to the ancients.
Gravity
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