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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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
He is extremely proud and rash, and not in any way a practical man; but he is not a person who ever would do anything to be sent to the bagnio or the galleys.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
This man—possibly a refugee from the bagnio at Marseilles, or from the Italian galleys—was soon allowed to seat himself in an office of £1,000 per annum.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
Any place where men have builded a jail, a bagnio, a gallows, a morgue, a church, a hospital, a saloon, and laid out a cemetery—hence a center of life.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert
One died; the other, Trinquet, was restored to life and the bagnio.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
I soon reached what had once been bagnios, and a little farther on, in a kind of valley between two gentle acclivities, the amphitheatre.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Darlow, Thomas Herbert
Some of the Spanish vessels were wrecked at Algiers, and their crews and troops were sent to the bagnios.
From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Lane-Poole, Stanley
In the same bagnios, there are chambers for hot baths, for such strangers as are not accustomed to bathe in cold water.
This place is called the Sudatorio di San Germano; near the present bagnios, which are but poor little hovels, there are the ruins of a magnificent ancient bath.
From Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos by Hamilton, William
But no part of it pleased me better than the apartments destined for the bagnios.
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
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