noun
- a hospital or shelter for people with contagious diseases
Usage: historical
Examples
- The city built a pesthouse outside the town limits during the cholera outbreak.
- Patients with smallpox were taken to the pesthouse to prevent the disease from spreading.
- The old pesthouse has been converted into a museum of medical history.
- During the plague, families feared their loved ones being sent to the pesthouse.
- The pesthouse was located far from residential areas for safety reasons.
- Medical records from the 19th-century pesthouse reveal the challenges doctors faced.