Definition of "leper-house" [leper-house]

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

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""My word, I don't know what to do," Daughtry murmured, staring about helplessly as he realised that it was a leper-house, that the very chair in which the old man sat was a leper-chair, that the very floor on which his exhausted feet rested was a leper - floor."
• "Yesterday, he wrote a letter to Sheriff Severance, giving himself up as a leper to be dealt with by the law, expressing himself as ready to be expatriated today, but requesting that he might not be put into the leper-house, and that he might go on board the steamer alone."
• "I would have avoided it like a leper-house because of its gloomy memorials; but the very reek of its repairing tenements as I saw them from the upper windows of my home floating in a haze against the blue over the shoulder of Dun Torvil seemed to call me on."