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单词 pest-coach
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pest-coach
pest-coach n. now historical a vehicle used to convey the infected to a plague hospital.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > for carrying dead bodies away > during a plague
pest-cart1603
pest-coach1665
1665 S. Pepys Diary 3 Aug. (1972) VI. 181 They got one of the pest Coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest-house.
1925 J. Parkes Trav. in Eng. in 17th Cent. vii. 202 Those whom business took to London..found the shops shut and the streets deserted, except for pest-coaches, coffins, and beggars.
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