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  • noun Alternative spelling of sanatorium.

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Examples

  • Don't know whut the name sanitorium means but Ah guess it is wun o 'those fancy two-dollar foreign names.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • I would never want my child to go through what he did, and he got off comparatively lightly, spending months in a sanitorium, then coming home with a slighty withered limb.

    Archive 2009-02-01 kittenpie 2009

  • I would never want my child to go through what he did, and he got off comparatively lightly, spending months in a sanitorium, then coming home with a slighty withered limb.

    Dead Bugs To The Rescue! kittenpie 2009

  • I guess the sanitorium was not on the schedule, but it was probably still standing in Byhalia.

    I See Myself on the Porch! ____Maggie 2008

  • We went walking on the weekend around the local psychiatric clinic (it used to be a sanitorium back in the day and has lovely grounds).

    Walking 2008

  • Set in a TB sanitorium in the Adirondacks, bacilli, blankets, balconies and bath chairs abound.

    Now Reading 2008

  • We went walking on the weekend around the local psychiatric clinic (it used to be a sanitorium back in the day and has lovely grounds).

    April 2008 2008

  • Set in a TB sanitorium in the Adirondacks, bacilli, blankets, balconies and bath chairs abound.

    Now Reading 2008

  •     The stream of hot water on my back was my own thermal sanitorium, a steerage-class spa for the soon-to-be-bereft — of-all-funds.

    Seasonal Discord 2009

  • As she told the story to a friend,* she had left her husband in Nanking and flown down to Shanghai, where her mother was in a sanitorium.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

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