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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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
One died; the other, Trinquet, was restored to life and the bagnio.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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
Dr. Berger, who supported for seven minutes a temperature varying from 109° to 110° C. in dry air, could remain only twelve minutes in a bagnio whose temperature rose from 41° to 51.75°.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various
On the Dutch tiles at the bagnio was a rude picture representing Jacob in hairy gloves, cheating Isaac of Esau's birthright.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
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