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Meanings of pesthouse in English

Portuguese
leprosário
Catalan
llebroseria
Wikidata

Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)

leprosário
Usage of pesthouse in English
1
A peach was just the same as a pesthouse to me, in Paris.
Europe Revised
2
He works in a sawmill, he works in a diptheria pesthouse.
Blood Meridian
3
Do not consider a tuberculous person an outcast, or one fit for the pesthouse.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
4
The Workhouse was described as a pesthouse, and the guardians in terror had abandoned it.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) /...
5
The pesthouse was an old dingy house where people with smallpox were isolated from the community.
The new yorker
6
My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus.
A Thorny Path — Volume 01
7
The whole city would be a pesthouse, filled with people wailing and paralyzed by the calamity.
The Rains Came
8
I was taken to the pesthouse near Westbourne Green, where I have been for the last three weeks.
Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
9
This is a pesthouse, sir.
War and Peace
10
The pesthouses were still standing in 1832.
Westminster
Frequent collocations
Translations for pesthouse
Portuguese
leprosário
Pesthouse through the time