bagnio

Example Sentences

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Before I left the city, I went into a bagnio, where I caused my beard and eye-brows to be shaved, and put on a calender's habit.

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 Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

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

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

He is extremely proud and rash, and not in any way a practical man; but he is not a person who ever would do anything to be sent to the bagnio or the galleys.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield