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noun
An isolated building or community used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from Medieval Latin leprōsārium, from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -ārium (“-ary: building related to”). Doublet of leprosery.
