Hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)
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.
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