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bagnio

[ban-yoh, bahn-] / ˈbæn joʊ, ˈbɑn- /


NOUN
Turkish bath
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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

Dr. Berger, who supported for seven minutes a temperature varying from 109° to 110° C. in dry air, could remain only twelve minutes in a bagnio whose temperature rose from 41° to 51.75°.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

Now in the house where the bagnio was she had a very dark chamber, for that no window gave thereon by which the light might enter.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

I set the water on the fire, and when it was hot put it into the moveable bagnio.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

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 J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg

When I see a young profligate squandering his fortune in bagnios, or at the gaming-table, I cannot help looking on him as hastening his own death, and in a manner digging his own grave.—Goldsmith.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

The penalty of resistance was too well known to need exemplification; thousands of Christian slaves in the bagnios at Algiers bore witness to the consequences of an independent policy.

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

Some were taken to the towns and kept in prisons called bagnios, waiting till their friends sent money to redeem them.

From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang

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 Randall Parrish

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

From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow


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