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pesthouse
1. A house, or hospital, for people who are infected with any pestilential disease (tending to produce a pestilence or a disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease).
2. Formerly a hospital where people suffering from infectious diseases were once confined and sometimes treated.

The term pest was once synonymous with the plague and more generally referred to any dread contagious disease.

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