pesthouse
Americannoun
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pesthouses
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noun
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Origin of pesthouse
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Liberia has become the scandal and pesthouse of West Africa.
From Time Magazine Archive
En route, the patient spent four days in a pesthouse in Lagos.
From Time Magazine Archive
A century ago Bellevue was a filthy, hellish pesthouse for typhus and yellow fever; 50 years ago a dumping ground for drunken bums, bastards, lunatics, penniless incurables.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a few days the fort was a raging pesthouse, isolated from the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind the pesthouse by lantern light men were digging a hurried grave.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
By having more pesthouses, I am far from meaning a forcing all people into such places.
From History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe
In the summer these slaughtering establishments were perfect pesthouses.
From The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
Workhouses are moral pesthouses, for the encouragement of idleness and profligacy, where at a great charge to the public, a host of outcasts are reared and trained for a career of misery.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 by Various
Jails were pesthouses, in which a disease, akin to our modern typhus, flourished often in epidemic form.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald
Now, blessed be God, all our fears are over, for none have died of the infection since the 11th of October, and all the pesthouses have been long empty.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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