bagnio
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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)
Each house has a bagnio, which consists generally in two or three little rooms, leaded on the top, paved with marble, with basins, cocks of water, and all conveniencies for either hot or cold baths.
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
He was guided in this task by Colonel Charrière, general director of the New Caledonian Penitentiary, who declared the criminals of the bagnio much more honourable than the political convicts.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
The most valiant, the most devoted, will die in the bagnio, in the Peninsula Ducos, in the Ile des Pins.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
Would it not be better to have chimneys, with a moderate degree of warmth, than a heat like that of a bagnio, with blind and sore eyes, and a black sooty house?
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland by Linn?, Carl von
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
There were poor slaves of the stews, wretched servants of the bagnios, whose lives seem sweet and decorous when compared with those of a Sandwich or a Dashwood or a Duke of Grafton.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin
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 Darlow, Thomas Herbert
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
Out of 5,758 persons confined in the bagnios in France, there were, according to Dr. Parry, in 1853, 391 illegitimate.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring
