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bagnio

[ ban-yoh, bahn- ]

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.


bagnio

/ ˈ²úɑ˲ÔÂáəʊ /

noun

  1. a brothel
  2. obsolete.
    an oriental prison for slaves
  3. obsolete.
    an Italian or Turkish bathhouse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bagnio1

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Italian bagno, from Latin balneum, balineum, from Greek ²ú²¹±ô²¹²Ô±ðî´Ç²Ô “bathroom, bathâ€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bagnio1

C16: from Italian bagno , from Latin balneum bath, from Greek balaneion
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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.

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One half come to prosecute their debaucheries, so openly that it would degrade a bagnio.

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And thus we are led off, if you please, to the "bagnio": the bathing-establishment wing, on the dank ground floor.

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The price of a bath, paid to the keeper of the public bagnio.

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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.

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