pesthouse

/pest-hous/US // ˈpɛstˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈpɛstˌhaʊs) //

宾馆,宾馆内,宾馆的,宾馆内的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural pest·hous·es [pest-hou-ziz]. /ˈpɛstˌhaʊ zɪz/.
- : a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.

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.