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What is a bagnio?

What is a bagnio? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A brothel.
  2. (obsolete) A building for bathing, sweating.
  3. (obsolete) In Turkey, a prison for slaves.
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Many other messages were exchanged between Zoraida and the captive until enough money was collected to furnish a ship and ransom other bagnio captives besides himself.
Ostensibly a Turkish bath, bagnio had come to mean a disorderly house.
He is pleased, because he didn't like putting us into the bagnio.
Without any question it was painted for a bagnio and it was probably refused because it was a trifle too strong.
The same day, Thomas Howard, a porter at the bagnio, confessed to Justice of the Peace Sir Thomas Clarges that he had been bribed by Toft's sister-in-law, Margaret, to sneak a rabbit into Toft's chamber.
How many months, years, are we still to pass in this bagnio?

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