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• bagnios — n. public bathhouse; brothel; prison for slaves …   English contemporary dictionary

• Bagnio — Bagnios were the slave prisons of Turkey and the Barbary regencies. In the Barbary prisons, the hostages of the pirates spent their evenings there, leaving during the day to work as laborers, galley slaves, or domestic servants. The term was… …   Wikipedia

• Barbary corsairs — Hayreddin Barbarossa, an Ottoman admiral The Barbary Corsairs, sometimes called Ottoman Corsairs or Barbary Pirates, were pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers. This area …   Wikipedia

• Public bathing — Ruins of a Roman bath in Dion, Greece, showing the under floor heating system, or hypocaust …   Wikipedia

• bagnio — noun (plural bagnios) Etymology: Italian bagno, literally, public baths (from the Turks use of Roman baths at Constantinople as prisons), from Latin balneum, from Greek balaneion Date: 1599 1. obsolete prison 2. bordello …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Tom King's Coffee House — Detail from Four Times of the Day. A fight has broken out in the coffee house. Tom King s Coffee House (later known as Moll King s Coffee House) was a notorious establishment in Covent Garden, London in the mid 18th century. Open from the time… …   Wikipedia

• Jane Douglas — Detail from Hogarth s The March of the Guards to Finchley, 1745 showing Douglas in the window at the bottom right praying for the safe return of her Babes of Grace . Douglas s girls line the other windows and the cats on the roof indicate the… …   Wikipedia

• bagnio — /ban yoh, bahn /, n., pl. bagnios. 1. a brothel. 2. (esp. in Italy or Turkey) a bath or bathing house. 3. Archaic. a prison for slaves, esp. in the Orient. [1590 1600; < It bagno < L balneum, balineum < Gk balaneîon bathroom, bath] * * * …   Universalium

• Cervantes, Miguel de — ▪ Spanish writer Introduction in full  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra  born September 29?, 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain died April 22, 1616, Madrid  Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the most… …   Universalium

• parlor house —    American    a brothel    The room in which you might be expected to meet a female visitor:     The parlor houses, cribs, brothels and bagnios had disappeared... and a thousand prostitutes had been thrown out of work. (Gores, 1975) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• bagnio — [ bα:njəʊ, banjəʊ] noun (plural bagnios) 1》 archaic a brothel. 2》 historical (in the Far East) a prison. Origin C16: from Ital. bagno, from L. balneum bath …   English new terms dictionary