A leper colony, leprosarium, or lazar house is a place to quarantine people with leprosy. The term Lazaretto can refer to quarantine sites, which were at some time also leper colonies.
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“Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
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