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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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
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
In this order they marched round the three largest rooms of the bagnio.
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
How many months, years, are we still to pass in this bagnio?
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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)
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