pesthouse 的定义
plural pest·hous·es [pest-hou-ziz]. /ˈpɛstˌhaʊ zɪz/.
- a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
更多pesthouse例句
- For he that without a just cause goeth into a Pesthouse, may thank himself, if he get the plague.
- Later, epidemics of smallpox and cholera have made a prison and a pesthouse of Manila.
- William King, surgeon to the Pesthouse, petitioned for a pension in 1611.
- My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus.
- He laughed, danced and sang at the pesthouse—things he was never known to do before.