bagnio
Americannoun
plural
bagnios-
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
Etymology
Origin of bagnio
First recorded in 1590–1600; from Italian bagno, from Latin balneum, balineum, from Greek balaneîon “bathroom, bath”
Example Sentences
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Before I left the city, I went into a bagnio, where I caused my beard and eye-brows to be shaved, and put on a calender's habit.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
As it was thought that I might be ransomed, the Moors placed me in a bagnio, and I was not forced to labour like those captives who had no hope of redemption.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
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
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
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
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