bagnio
(ˈbænjəʊ)
Forms: 6 banio, 7 bagno, bagneo, bannia, -ier, -iard, bagnard, 7–9 bagnio.
[a. It. bagno:—L. balneum bath. Cf. balneo.]
† 1. A bath, a bathing-house; esp. one with hot baths, vapour-baths, and appliances for sweating, cupping, and other operations. (No longer applied to any such place in Britain, the nearest approach to which is the modern Turkish Bath; but applied as an alien word to the baths of Italian or Turkish cities.)
| 1615 G. Sandys Travels 12 Upon the Castle Hill there is a Bannia..containing seueral roomes one hoter than another. 1624 Massinger Renegado i. ii, At the public bagnios or the mosques. 1653 Greaves Seraglio 7 Dining rooms, Bagno's [marginal note. Bathes or hot-houses; it must be pronounced Banios]. 1682 Lond. Gaz. No. 1686/4 The Royal Bagnio is now in very good Order. 1683 Tryon Way to Health 324 Their Chambers are in the next degree to Bagneo's or Hot-Houses. 1695 Congreve Love for Love i. xiv, I have a Beau in a Bagnio, Cupping for a Complexion, and Sweating for a Shape. 1719 De Foe Crusoe (1858) 601 Just as they heat the bagnios in England. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. vi. v. 480 The beavers make two apertures..one is a passage to their bagnio. 1820 Mair Tyro's Dict. 376 Sudatorium, a bagnio or hot house, to sweat in. |
2. An oriental prison, a place of detention for slaves, a penal establishment.
(So in It. and Sp., and F. bagne. The origin of this use of the word is doubtful: see conjectures in Chambers Cycl. 1751 and Littré.)
| 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 186 The king sent..to the Banio: (this Banio is the prison wheras all the captiues lay at night). c 1645 Howell Lett. (1650) I. 42 A slave in the bannier at Algier. 1660–1 Pepys Diary 8 Feb., Stories of Algiers and the..slaves there..How they are all, at night, called into their master's Bagnard. 1687 Rycaut Hist. Turks II. App. 5 A prison and Banniard of Slaves. 1728 Morgan Algiers II. iv. 268 He sent him to his Bagnio, among the rest of his Slaves. 1847 Disraeli Tancred vi. v, To be sent to the bagnio or the galleys. |
3. A brothel, a house of prostitution. (Cf. similar application of stew.)
| 1624 Massinger Parl. Love ii. ii, To be sold to a brothel Or a common bagnio. 1747 Hoadley Susp. Husb. ii. iv. (1756) 27 Carry her to a Bagnio, and there you may lodge with her. 1851 Thackeray Eng. Hum. v. (1858) 243 How the prodigal drinks and sports at the bagnio. 1862 Wright Dom. Mann. 491 They were soon used to such an extent for illicit intrigues, that the name of a hothouse or bagnio became equivalent to that of a brothel. |
† 4. = bath in Chemistry. Also attrib.
| 1696 E. Smith in Phil. Trans. XIX. 229 Two hundred Drams Calcined at a Bagnio Fire. |