bagnio

American  

[ban-yoh, bahn-] / ˈbæn yoʊ, ˈbɑn- /

noun

plural

bagnios

1. a brothel.

2. (especially in Italy or Turkey) a bath or bathing house.

3. a prison or slave quarters in the Ottoman Empire.

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bagnio British  

/ ˈbɑːnjəʊ /

noun

1. a brothel

2. obsolete an oriental prison for slaves

3. 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”

Example Sentences

She had in the bagnio a room which was very dark, being without any window to admit the light.

From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

Then he put a torch in his hand, bid him mix with the crowd at the bagnio door, and follow them till he came into a hall, where they were to celebrate a marriage.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

I set the water on the fire, and when it was hot put it into the moveable bagnio.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

From the Arabic word hammam, a bagnio or bath.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

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

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