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Definition of Pestholes
1. pesthole [n] - See also: pesthole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestholes
Literary usage of Pestholes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Topography and Architecture by Nancy Bookidis, Ronald S. Stroud (1997)
"A series of pestholes was found in the hillslope west of the steps (see Plans 1,
... 55 For similar pestholes in a sanctuary, see those found in the Sacred ..."
2. The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory by Philip P. Betancourt (2006)
"The slag-filled cavities, apparently pestholes, defined the outer margin of the
apsidal area of soil. Eight pestholes could be securely identified ..."
3. The Architecture, Stratification, and Pottery of Lerna III by Martha Heath Wiencke (2000)
"Four pestholes 'diameters 0.10-0.13 and about 0.15 deep; ... Three more
pestholes (diameters 0.12-0.16j were found in the floor east of the line of stone ..."
4. The War in Eastern Europe by John Reed (1916)
"... had been one of the worst typhus pestholes in all Serbia. Even now, when the
disease had diminished so greatly, the streets of ..."
5. Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1920)
"The dwellings at this ancient village, as shown by the pestholes which outline
the floor spaces, were invariably of a circular form, but the largest ..."
6. Chinook texts by Franz Boas (1894)
"Remains of the same character have been exhumed from pestholes, cellars, and
other excavations in the vicinity. For various reasons careful examination was ..."
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