bagnio

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One died; the other, Trinquet, was restored to life and the bagnio.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

All the she-friends, relations and acquaintance of the two families, newly allied, meet at the bagnio; several others go, out Of curiosity, and I believe there were that day two hundred women.

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

It bids fair to remain the same excellent school of preparation for the penitentiary and the bagnio.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

From the Arabic word hammam, a bagnio or bath.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

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