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death house
noun
- a building or part of a prison in which persons condemned to death await execution.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of death house1
First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences
She stayed in a private bedroom in the death house while awaiting the final judicial rejection of an appeal.
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The party entered the death house, and at once were ushered into the room where Shay and Jim were sitting.
From Project Gutenberg
It was a flower mausoleum; a vault of bouquets, a death-house of memories.
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Clancy would have stopped the procession to the death-house to powder her nose.
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I was able to see Callista several times in the death house.
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They expect to take me out of this precinct jail to the District prison and eventually to the death house.
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