pesthouse

[ pest-hous ]

noun

, plural pest·hous·es [pest, -hou-ziz].

1. a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.

pesthouse

/ ˈpɛstˌhaʊs /

noun

1. obsolete.
   a hospital for treating persons with infectious diseases Also calledlazaretto

Word History and Origins

Origin of pesthouse¹

First recorded in 1605–15; pest + house

Example Sentences

For he that without a just cause goeth into a Pesthouse, may thank himself, if he get the plague.

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Later, epidemics of smallpox and cholera have made a prison and a pesthouse of Manila.

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William King, surgeon to the Pesthouse, petitioned for a pension in 1611.

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My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus.

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He laughed, danced and sang at the pesthouse—things he was never known to do before.

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