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bagnio
[ ban-yoh, bahn- ]
noun
plural bagnios.
- a brothel.
- (especially in Italy or Turkey) a bath or bathing house.
- a prison or slave quarters in the Ottoman Empire.
bagnio
/ ˈ²úɑ˲ÔÂáəʊ /
noun
- a brothel
- obsolete.an oriental prison for slaves
- obsolete.an Italian or Turkish bathhouse
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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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