pesthouse

[ pest-hous ]

noun,plural pest·hous·es [pest-hou-ziz]. /ˈpɛstˌhaʊ zɪz/.
  1. a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.

Origin of pesthouse

1
First recorded in 1605–15; pest + house

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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.

  • Or 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 Wheaton
  • Several times before this there had been smaller outbreaks, which had resulted in the building of a pest-house.

    Holborn and Bloomsbury | Sir Walter Besant
  • There 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

pesthouse

/ (ˈpɛstˌhaʊs) /


noun
  1. obsolete a hospital for treating persons with infectious diseases: Also called: lazaretto

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