Definition of "leprosarium" [leprosarium]

• A hospital for the treatment of leprosy. (noun)

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• ""The nine miles from Ban Me Thuot to the leprosarium was the longest nine miles in the world.""
• "The day the Viet Cong raided the leprosarium was a Wednesday."
• "Public-spirited citizens wrote to the papers, declaiming against the maintenance of such a danger to the community, and demanding that the United States government build a national leprosarium on some remote island or isolated mountain peak."