PESTHOUSE

lazaretto, lazaret, lazarette, lazar house, pesthouse

(noun) hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

pesthouse (plural pesthouses)

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

Anagrams

• espouseth, housepets, phoetuses, phœtuses

Source: Wiktionary


Pest`house", n.

Definition: A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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UNINFORMATIVELY

(adverb) in an uninformative manner; “‘I can’t tell you when the manager will arrive,’ he said rather uninformatively”


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