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ˈpest-house
[f. pest + house n.]
A hospital for persons suffering from any infectious disease, esp. the plague; a lazaretto. Also attrib.
1611in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. 166 Helpinge such persons as come to the Pesthowse. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 73 They have a Pest house called Lazaretto, and two like houses for Lepers. 1665Pepys Diary (1879) III. 199. 1722 De Foe Plague (1840) 37 Some people being removed to the pest⁓house beyond Bunhill fields. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 265 He..shunned ball-rooms and drawing⁓rooms as if they were pest-houses. 1890Times 20 Jan. 9/2 [The prisons] were pesthouses in which gaol-fever annually claimed a multitude of victims.
fig.a1613Overbury Charac., Prison Wks. (1856) 155 It is an infected pest-house all the yeare long: the plague⁓sores of the law, are the diseases here wholely reigning. 1833Carlyle Misc. Ess., Cagliostro (1840) IV. 352 A painful search, as through some spiritual pest-house. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lxv, In all the crime..of the great pest-house of the capital, he stood alone. |