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  • noun Alternative form of death house.

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Examples

  • Young professors in remote and obscure universities, apparently as harmless as so many convicts in the deathhouse, were secretly flirting with new and red-hot ideas.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • HUNTSVILLE - As lethal drugs pumped into child-killer Timothy Wayne Adams' veins Tuesday night in Texas' teal-green deathhouse, his sister Stacey Adams - watching from a witness room just feet away - collapsed in convulsive sobs.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • "Synecdoche was overly permeated with Kaufman's trademark deathhouse gloom"

    Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

  • Synecdoche was overly permeated with Kaufman's trademark deathhouse gloom and two,

    Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

  • Synecdoche was overly permeated with Kaufman's trademark deathhouse gloom and two,

    Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

  • "Synecdoche was overly permeated with Kaufman's trademark deathhouse gloom"

    Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

  • Synecdoche was overly permeated with Kaufman's trademark deathhouse gloom and two,

    Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

  • "Synecdoche was overly permeated with Kaufman's trademark deathhouse gloom"

    Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

  • "Synecdoche was overly permeated with Kaufman's trademark deathhouse gloom"

    Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

  • "Synecdoche was overly permeated with Kaufman's trademark deathhouse gloom"

    Hollywood Elsewhere 2009

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