bagnio

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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.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

From the Arabic word hammam, a bagnio or bath.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Then he put a torch in his hand, bid him mix with the crowd at the bagnio door, and follow them till he came into a hall, where they were to celebrate a marriage.

From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

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