bagnio

• They are fit for a bagnio rather than a public exhibition. —  Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2
• 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. —  Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
• I shall be perfectly all right By the time Mrs. Stavacre at last stood before the door of Mrs. Brimstone's bagnio, dawn was not far off. —  AHMM,January-February2007
• Afterward, when Aruch Barbarossa, the "Friend of the Sea," had seized the Algerian strongholds as a prize for the Turks, and his system of piracy was devastating the Mediterranean, Spain with other countries suffered, and we have a vivid picture of an Algerine bagnio and bagnio-keeper from the pen of the illustrious prisoner Cervantes. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
• 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. —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade

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