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pesthouse

noun

Etymology

From pest + house.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as pesthouse — “pest + house”

Definitions

  1. An establishment which provides shelter or care to sufferers of pestilence or other…

    An establishment which provides shelter or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pesthouse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA