Letter L

Leper

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<B>1.</B> Someone with leprosy (Hansen disease).

The term leper is now in disfavor.

<B>2.</B> By extension, a pariah.

A person who is avoided or shunned by society.<BR>From the French lepre, from the Greek lepros meaning scaly, referring to the scales that form on the skin in some cases of leprosy

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