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Definition of Death house
1. Noun. The cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution.
Definition of Death house
1. Noun. ''Syn.'' death row. ¹
2. Noun. A holding area in a prison for condemned prisoners in the time immediately prior to execution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Death House
Literary usage of Death house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Germanic Private Law by Rudolf Hübner, Francis Samuel Philbrick, Paul Vinogradoff, William Emanuel Walz (1918)
"This was likewise required to be demanded within a year and a day, since " the
death-house remained open " for that period only. Here again the one claiming ..."
2. Encyclopedia of Biography of New York: A Life Record of Men and Women Whose by Charles Elliott Fitch (1916)
"An innocent man convicted of a murder under a death sentence in the death house ;
the real man who committed the murder and confessed it, had been tried for ..."
3. The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne (1914)
"Civilization has progressed wonderfully, but always with this death-house on its
back. And the death-house gets bigger and more populous every year. ..."
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