Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A brothel.
- n. Obsolete A prison for slaves in Asian countries.
- n. Obsolete A public bathhouse in Italy or Turkey.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bath; a house for bathing, cupping, sweating, and otherwise cleansing the body.
- n. A brothel; a stew.
- n. In the Turkish empire, a prison in general; in France, formerly, one of the great prisons (bagnes) substituted for the galleys, now superseded by transportation: perhaps so called from the former use of ancient baths in Constantinople as prisons.
Wiktionary
- n. A brothel.
- n. obsolete A building for bathing, sweating.
- n. obsolete In Turkey, a prison for slaves.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.
- n. A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a building where prostitutes are available
- n. a building containing public baths
Etymologies
- Italian bagno, from Latin balneum ("bath"). (Wiktionary)
- Italian bagno, bath, from Latin balneum, from Greek balaneion. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This straightforward account of matters inside the bagnio is the more valuable and interesting if we recollect that Cervantes 'great-grandmother was a Saavedra, and that the soldier alluded to in the text was really himself.”
“Check every bawdy house, bagnio, Blind Tiger, and frab-joint in the city.”
“That's why I'll 'ave the finest slap-up bagnio on the west coast goin' full steam before the year's out an 'I'll still have a tidy parcel over in the bank.”
“Apparently our favorite Pete Doherty-like Earl somehow discovered his wife's infidelities and followed her to the bagnio where he discovered her in bed with Silvertongue.”
“The Countess and Silvertongue have checked into The Turk's Head, a bagnio that actually existed in Hogath's time.”
“Do you know that we saw your friend Jervas coming out of the bagnio near Covent Garden half an hour ago?”
“Drank her light-hearted — then carried her to a play — then it was too late, you know, to see the pretended lady — then to a bagnio — ruined her, as they call it, and all this the same day.”
“From whom should this visit be, but from Sally Martin, accompanied by Mrs. Carter, the sister of the infamous Sinclair! the same, I suppose I need not tell you, who keeps the bagnio near”
“The next fastest way, is by moist heat; as in a bagnio.”
“The cleanliness of the rest of your person, which, by the way, will conduce greatly to your health, I refer from time to time to the bagnio.”
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bagnio’.
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WWF WTF?
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Greek to me
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Words of Ill-Repute
bona roba, obloquy, bagnio, demirep, frowzy, odium, calumny, opprobrium, rogue, currish, piacular, abreact and 11 more...
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Latin
exempli gratia, deus ex machina, prolix, sisyphean, minatory, empyrean, cicatrix, demulcent, effulgence, emulsion, garum, ablative and 39 more...
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Not quite love
prolix, pleonastic, senescence, autochthonous, loup, pronk, onomatopoeia, magisterial, rixatrix, esurient, blowsabella, crapulence and 69 more...
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marginalia
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Miscellanea
Words I like that lack a category.
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Jail Terms
Synonyms for 'jail.' Some of these shamelessly pilfered from spicolli's list: http://www.wordnik.com/lists/the-pokey-the-b...
jail, prison, can, big house, slammer, clink, pen, oubliette, cage, cooler, solitary, penitentiary and 64 more...
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words that make more sense if you kno...
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Tweets
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ruzuzu "1. A bath; a house for bathing, cupping, sweating, and otherwise cleansing the body.
2. A brothel; a stew.
3. In the Turkish empire, a prison in general; in France, formerly, one of the great prisons (bagnes) substituted for the galleys, now superseded by transportation: perhaps so called from the former use of ancient baths in Constantinople as prisons."
--Century Dictionary Jan 12, 2011