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pesthouse [pest-hous] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun, plural pest·hous·es [pest-hou-ziz] /ˈpɛstˌhaʊ zɪz/. a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of pesthouse First recorded in 1605–15; pest + house Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for pesthouse Historical Examples of pesthouse
It was the time of cholera; the boat might have become a pesthouse any moment.
The Great White Tribe in Filipinia
Paul T. Gilbert
William King, surgeon to the Pesthouse, petitioned for a pension in 1611.
Henry B. Wheatley
There are better reasons for putting such a man in the pesthouse than one who has smallpox.
Self Knowledge and Guide to Sex Instruction
T. W. Shannon
My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus.
A Thorny Path [Per Aspera], Complete
Georg Ebers
He 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 pesthouse noun obsolete a hospital for treating persons with infectious diseasesAlso called: lazaretto Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
