bagnio

Example Sentences

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

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Winter, Milo

After a month, she began to grow better, and had a mind to go to the bagnio.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

It bids fair to remain the same excellent school of preparation for the penitentiary and the bagnio.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

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

Now in the house where the bagnio was she had a very dark chamber, for that no window gave thereon by which the light might enter.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John