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Definition of Pesthole
1. Noun. A breeding ground for epidemic disease.
Definition of Pesthole
1. Noun. A place where a pest (contagious disease) is present or likely ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pesthole
1. a place liable to epidemic disease [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pesthole
Literary usage of Pesthole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Who Built the Panama Canal? by Walter Leon Pepperman (1915)
"Governor Magoon soon after taking up his residence in the Canal Zone had a pesthole
dug in front of his house in Ancon. The hole was four feet deep and two ..."
2. The Greek Coins by John H. Kroll (1993)
"... was constructed to the north of the early trapezoidal building and over the
northern part of the early pesthole structure (Caskey 1966: 148, ..."
3. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"In 1913 it opened up a section of Honduras which was denounced by the natives as
such a pesthole that it was useless to attempt its cultivation. ..."
4. California: An Intimate History by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1914)
"... and Pachecos, and that pesthole, Los Angeles, had not existed, no doubt he
would have succeeded. But, although he had suppressed Los Angeles, which, ..."
5. Readings in Modern European History: A Collection of Extracts from the by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1909)
"... they see millions of dollars lavished on the secret service and fortifications
at Pretoria, while Johannesburg remains a pesthole; their language is ..."
6. Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives by Allan Pinkerton (1878)
"... until what should be the fairest garden-spot of the great Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania is swiftly becoming such a pesthole of anarchy and murder that it ..."
7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"from where it joins the Fraser, that measures 59 feet from the pesthole on one
side to the corresponding hole on the other. These dwellings were usually ..."
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