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 eyebrows to be shaved, and put on a calender's robe.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Winter, Milo
The price of a bath, paid to the keeper of the public bagnio.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
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)
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
Now in the house where the bagnio was she had a very dark chamber, for that no window gave thereon by which the light might enter.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John
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