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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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
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
In the summer these slaughtering establishments were perfect pesthouses.
From The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
