1. 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.