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Meanings of leper colony in English
A place where leprous people are isolated from the rest of the population.
Synonyms
Examples for "leprosarium"
Examples for "leprosarium"
1
Then, in 1943, Dr. Aldoria Robichaud visited Carville, Louisiana, site of a four-hundred-bed leprosarium.
2
I think there was a leprosarium somewhere out there.
3
He studied biochemistry at Cordoba University and then went to work in the laboratory of a provincial leprosarium, while Guevara studied medicine in Buenos Aires.
4
We are currently keeping her in the old Leprosarium, the windows of which have been bricked up.
1
The same rogues also destroyed the building site for the leper house.
2
The construction of a leper house had at first upset those plans.
3
The way it is situated makes it ideal for a leper house.
4
In the meantime they had reached the foundation of the leper house.
5
Clay that could have come from the leper house building site.
1
A lazar house draws him on, and he needs must reach it, weak and ill-fed though he is!
2
Leaving its natal threshold of earth and the lazar house of time, its home is immensity, and its lease is eternity.
3
They correspond to the lepers who thronged the lazar houses of the Middle Ages.
4
I have tracked him, then, to this Lazar House.
5
In the Middle Ages such dwellings administered by a Christian order were called lazar houses, after the parable of Lazarus the beggar.
Usage of leper colony in English
1
In 1844, the New Brunswick government turned Sheldrake into a leper colony.
2
The Island of Molokai, the leper colony, lay not far off.
3
The doctor sacrificing his life in a leper colony is an extreme example.
4
Do you think Brinkley Court is a leper colony or what is it?
5
Create convict settlement for innocent people, now we'll be a leper colony, he texted.
6
I guess for a leper colony it ain't so bad.
7
My heart seemed to be purified, said one elderly man in this once-isolated leper colony.
8
By the way they acted now, she might have just escaped from a leper colony.
9
We'd have been as welcome as a leper colony.
10
Maybe even build a leper colony for them.
11
You will be sent to a leper colony.
12
Honestly, we were like a leper colony here after Cardiff, but most of them stuck with me.
13
Sale was for the benefit of her husband leper colony, which is twelve miles from her palace.
14
Robben Island has served as a lunatic asylum, leper colony and prison throughout the 340 years since European settlers arrived.
15
Croatia was ejected from this leper colony by virtue of the death of its megalomaniac autocrat and his replacement by ex-communists.
16
The station was now a sepulchre of contagion, as forbidden and untouchable as a leper colony had been to the ancients.
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