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Meanings of leprosarium in English

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

Synonyms
Examples for "lazar house"
Examples for "lazar house"
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A lazar house draws him on, and he needs must reach it, weak and ill-fed though he is!
London's Underworld
2
Leaving its natal threshold of earth and the lazar house of time, its home is immensity, and its lease is eternity.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
3
They correspond to the lepers who thronged the lazar houses of the Middle Ages.
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
4
I have tracked him, then, to this Lazar House.
Zanoni
5
In the Middle Ages such dwellings administered by a Christian order were called lazar houses, after the parable of Lazarus the beggar.
A monster's notes
1
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
4
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
1
The same rogues also destroyed the building site for the leper house.
The hangman's daughter
2
The construction of a leper house had at first upset those plans.
The hangman's daughter
3
The way it is situated makes it ideal for a leper house.
The hangman's daughter
4
In the meantime they had reached the foundation of the leper house.
The hangman's daughter
5
Clay that could have come from the leper house building site.
The hangman's daughter
Usage of leprosarium in English
1
Then, in 1943, Dr. Aldoria Robichaud visited Carville, Louisiana, site of a four-hundred-bed leprosarium.
Bones to Ashes
2
I think there was a leprosarium somewhere out there.
Bones to Ashes
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.
The Irish Times
4
We are currently keeping her in the old Leprosarium, the windows of which have been bricked up.
The Atrocity Archives
Leprosarium through the time