pesthouse
noun
a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
pesthouses
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pluralof pesthouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Hence a universal Pythagorean noviciate would, sooner or later, give rise to epidemics, and Chartreuses of nuns would become pesthouses.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
In all this dreadful visitation there were, as I have said before, but two pesthouses made use of; viz., one in the fields beyond Old Street, and one in Westminster.
From History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe
