We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of pesthouse in English
Portuguese
leprosário Catalan
llebroseria 
Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
Synonyms
Examples for "lazaretto"
Examples for "lazaretto"
1
Admitted as a teen, Archange endured to become the lazaretto's final resident.
2
That was the name of the man who died in the Denver lazaretto-
3
The presence of the lazaretto had a devastating impact on the Tracadie economy.
4
One hundred and sixteen years after opening, the lazaretto finally closed its doors.
5
I ran into the hotel and asked the clerk about the lazaretto patient.
1
The forecastle, and 'tween-decks, and steerage, and lazarette had been minutely overhauled.
2
You know how he leaped across the opening of the lazarette.
3
As I emerged from the lazarette I heard sounds in Wolf Larsen's state-room.
4
The lazarette, where such delicacies were stored, was situated beneath the cabin floor.
5
S'pose we try the lazarette, if you have such a place.
1
She thought I should wait until I heard the captain leave the lazaret.
2
The two searchers climbed out and walked aft to the lazaret.
3
It had become, over night as it were, a lazaret for the wounded.
4
Those seriously wounded were sent to the lazaret, or hospital proper.
5
He told the steward to open the lazaret hatch, and be sharp about it.
1
A lazar house draws him on, and he needs must reach it, weak and ill-fed though he is!
2
Leaving its natal threshold of earth and the lazar house of time, its home is immensity, and its lease is eternity.
3
They correspond to the lepers who thronged the lazar houses of the Middle Ages.
4
I have tracked him, then, to this Lazar House.
5
In the Middle Ages such dwellings administered by a Christian order were called lazar houses, after the parable of Lazarus the beggar.
Usage of pesthouse in English
1
A peach was just the same as a pesthouse to me, in Paris.
2
He works in a sawmill, he works in a diptheria pesthouse.
3
Do not consider a tuberculous person an outcast, or one fit for the pesthouse.
4
The Workhouse was described as a pesthouse, and the guardians in terror had abandoned it.
5
The pesthouse was an old dingy house where people with smallpox were isolated from the community.
6
My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus.
7
The whole city would be a pesthouse, filled with people wailing and paralyzed by the calamity.
8
I was taken to the pesthouse near Westbourne Green, where I have been for the last three weeks.
9
This is a pesthouse, sir.
10
The pesthouses were still standing in 1832.
Frequent collocations
Pesthouse through the time