BAGNIO, noun ban'yo.[Latin balneum.]
1. A bath; a house for bathing, cupping, sweating and otherwise cleansing the body. In Turkey, it is the name of prisons where slaves are kept; so called from the baths which they contain.
2. A brothel.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.