NOUN
- a building where prostitutes are available
- a building containing public baths
How To Use bagnio In A Sentence
- 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. Clarissa Harlowe
- Do you know that we saw your friend Jervas coming out of the bagnio near Covent Garden half an hour ago? The Scandal of the Season
- 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. Isabelle
- Garcés examines the five years he spent in the Algerian bagnios and the impact of his imprisonment on his works.
- 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
- 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. The True Story Book
- The next fastest way, is by moist heat; as in a bagnio. 1760 diet revolution | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
- Many other messages were exchanged between Zoraida and the captive until enough money was collected to furnish a ship and ransom other bagnio captives besides himself.
- In France special prison bagnios were constructed in the eighteenth century at Toulon, Brest, Rochefort, and Lorient.
- The most notorious madam of the era was one Elizabeth Hayward who ran bagnios with a rare wit.