bagnio

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As it was thought that I might be ransomed, the Moors placed me in a bagnio, and I was not forced to labour like those captives who had no hope of redemption.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis

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

I would conjecture that here the slave-miners were stationed, Old Zibá being the master's abode: our caravan entitled it El-Lomán—"the bagnio, the prison for galériens."

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He was guided in this task by Colonel Charrière, general director of the New Caledonian Penitentiary, who declared the criminals of the bagnio much more honourable than the political convicts.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

The price of a bath, paid to the keeper of the public bagnio.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward