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bagnio
[ ban-yoh, bahn- ]
noun
- a brothel.
- (especially in Italy or Turkey) a bath or bathing house.
- a prison or slave quarters in the Ottoman Empire.
bagnio
/ ˈbɑːnjəʊ /
noun
- a brothel
- obsolete.an oriental prison for slaves
- obsolete.an Italian or Turkish bathhouse
Word History and Origins
Origin of bagnio1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bagnio1
Example Sentences
He offered to purchase a ship in Algiers, and pretend to turn merchant, by which means, he said, he could contrive to get us out of the bagnio and the country.
One half come to prosecute their debaucheries, so openly that it would degrade a bagnio.
And one thinks of all the unsavory "assignations" at these old bagnio places.
The price of a bath, paid to the keeper of the public bagnio.
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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