pesthouse
a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
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How to use pesthouse in a sentence
For he that without a just cause goeth into a pesthouse, may thank himself, if he get the plague.
A Vindication of the Presbyteriall-Government and Ministry | Ministers and Elders of the London Provinciall AssemblyLater, epidemics of smallpox and cholera have made a prison and a pesthouse of Manila.
The Great White Tribe in Filipinia | Paul T. GilbertWilliam King, surgeon to the pesthouse, petitioned for a pension in 1611.
The Story of London | Henry B. WheatleyMy mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus.
A Thorny Path [Per Aspera], Complete | Georg EbersHe laughed, danced and sang at the pesthouse—things he was never known to do before.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) | Elbert Hubbard
British Dictionary definitions for pesthouse
/ (ˈpɛstˌhaʊs) /
obsolete a hospital for treating persons with infectious diseases: Also called: lazaretto
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