pesthouse
a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
Origin of pesthouse
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How to use pesthouse in a sentence
The lady had to be removed to the pest-house, where the stricken medico sedulously attends her for nothing.
The Fiend's Delight | Dod GrileOr will you cease being a psychic pest-house, and begin to fumigate and disinfect your Mind?
Nuggets of the New Thought | William Walker Atkinson,I told the mission workers I was sure I could go to Heaven even from the pest-house, with the smallpox.
Prisons and Prayer: Or a Labor of Love | Elizabeth Ryder WheatonSeveral times before this there had been smaller outbreaks, which had resulted in the building of a pest-house.
Holborn and Bloomsbury | Sir Walter BesantThere was a Lazaretto, or pest-house, on a high rock, from which we felt sure that no disease would ever be communicated.
ZigZag Journeys in Northern Lands; | Hezekiah Butterworth
British Dictionary definitions for pesthouse
/ (ˈpɛstˌhaʊs) /
obsolete a hospital for treating persons with infectious diseases: Also called: lazaretto
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