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a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid l. 438 in Poems (1981) 125 This lipper ludge [1532 leper loge] tak for thy burelie bour.

1736 J. M'Ure View City of Glasgow ii. 62 The Houses builded upon that Ground were likewise calld by the Inhabitants adjacent the Leper Hospital.

1774 T. West Antiq. Furness vii. 186 Not only in Furness, but also at Kendal, they served the hospital of St. Leonard's, and the leper-lodge there, till the dissolution.

1818 Friend of India Oct. 195 There are now no less than four philanthropic Institutions, whose funds are derived partly from European partly from Native liberality. These are, the Calcutta School-Book Society; the Calcutta Leper Asylum, [etc.].

1891 C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics Brit. 99 The leper-spitals of Scotland.

1898 Arch. Surg. 9 381 As the country was..a leper centre, some individuals were contaminated.

1950 S. J. Perelman Swiss Family Perelman i. 9 They ranged from sniggered allusions to the bar sinister to reports that we were actually bound for the leper colony at Molokai.

1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xxiv. 292 Ulnar nerve involvement leads to the characteristic ‘leper claw’.

1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Mar. 263/4 In 1941 the reappearance of leprosy led to the prohibition of the movement of Aborigines below the 20th parallel—the ‘leper line’.

2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts vii. 126 To contain a frightening disease, specialized leper asylums were built, where the ‘unclean’ might be forcibly confined.