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bagnio

[ban-yoh, bahn-] / ˈbæn joʊ, ˈbɑn- /


NOUN
Turkish bath
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How many months, years, are we still to pass in this bagnio?

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

She had in the bagnio a room which was very dark, being without any window to admit the light.

From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

After a month, she began to grow better, and had a mind to go to the bagnio.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

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

On the Dutch tiles at the bagnio was a rude picture representing Jacob in hairy gloves, cheating Isaac of Esau's birthright.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George

The poor citizens went to the barbers, who acted as surgeons, and kept bagnios.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

The bagnios and dance halls were ablaze; the bar-rooms crowded with hilarious or quarrelsome humanity, the gambling tables alive with excitement.

From Keith of the Border by Parrish, Randall

Some of the Spanish vessels were wrecked at Algiers, and their crews and troops were sent to the bagnios.

From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Lane-Poole, Stanley

This place is called the Sudatorio di San Germano; near the present bagnios, which are but poor little hovels, there are the ruins of a magnificent ancient bath.

From Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos by Hamilton, William

I soon reached what had once been bagnios; and a little farther on, in a kind of valley, between two gentle declivities, the amphitheatre. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry




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