leprosery

n. 麻疯病院

词形变化

leproseries 复数 leproseries

别名

leprosary leproserie

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.

    Lewis VIII, king of France, made bequests in the year 1227 to two thousand Leprosaries within his own dominions.

词源

Borrowed from French léproserie and léprosarie, from Medieval Latin leprōsārium, from leprōsus (“leprous”) + -ārium (“-ary: building related to”). Equivalent to leprose + -ery.

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