bagnio
Americannoun
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a brothel.
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(especially in Italy or Turkey) a bath or bathing house.
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a prison or slave quarters in the Ottoman Empire.
noun
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a brothel
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obsolete an oriental prison for slaves
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obsolete an Italian or Turkish bathhouse
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Etymology
Origin of bagnio
First recorded in 1590–1600; from Italian bagno, from Latin balneum, balineum, from Greek balaneîon “bathroom, bath”
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It bids fair to remain the same excellent school of preparation for the penitentiary and the bagnio.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
After a month, she began to grow better, and had a mind to go to the bagnio.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
All the she-friends, relations and acquaintance of the two families, newly allied, meet at the bagnio; several others go, out Of curiosity, and I believe there were that day two hundred women.
From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady
I would conjecture that here the slave-miners were stationed, Old Zibá being the master's abode: our caravan entitled it El-Lomán—"the bagnio, the prison for galériens."
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Before I left the city I went into a bagnio, where I caused my beard and eyebrows to be shaved, and put on a calender's robe.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Winter, Milo
The penalty of resistance was too well known to need exemplification; thousands of Christian slaves in the bagnios at Algiers bore witness to the consequences of an independent policy.
From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Lane-Poole, Stanley
Out of 5,758 persons confined in the bagnios in France, there were, according to Dr. Parry, in 1853, 391 illegitimate.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring
Some were taken to the towns and kept in prisons called bagnios, waiting till their friends sent money to redeem them.
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
I soon reached what had once been bagnios; and a little farther on, in a kind of valley, between two gentle declivities, the amphitheatre.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry
When I see a young profligate squandering his fortune in bagnios, or at the gaming-table, I cannot help looking on him as hastening his own death, and in a manner digging his own grave.—Goldsmith.
From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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