BAGNIO, an Italian word, signifying a bath. We use it for a house with conveniences for bathing, cupping, sweating, and otherwise cleansing the body; and sometimes for worse purposes. In Turkey it is become a general name for the prisons where the slaves are enclosed, it being usual in these prisons to have baths.
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