Bagnio

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  • noun. A brothel.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A prison for slaves in Asian countries.
  • noun. A public bathhouse in Italy or Turkey.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A bath; a house for bathing, cupping, sweating, and otherwise cleansing the body.
  • noun. A brothel; a stew.
  • noun. In the Turkish empire, a prison in general; in France, formerly, one of the great prisons (bagnes) substituted for the galleys, now superseded by transportation: perhaps so called from the former use of ancient baths in Constantinople as prisons.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.
  • noun. A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A brothel.
  • noun. A building for bathing, sweating.
  • noun. In Turkey, a prison for slaves.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a building where prostitutes are available
  • noun. a building containing public baths
  • Word Usage
    "This straightforward account of matters inside the bagnio is the more valuable and interesting if we recollect that Cervantes 'great-grandmother was a Saavedra, and that the soldier alluded to in the text was really himself."
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