Definition of "pesthouse" []

• An establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections (noun)

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• ""Do you know," said Gloriana, as the black-eyed girl finished relating the afternoon's happenings to her, "I half believe that man snooping around the pesthouse is the robber.""
• "The Workhouse was described as a pesthouse, and the guardians in terror had abandoned it."
• "Susan Balée asks Jim Crace Where 'the pesthouse' came from."