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    Bagnio is a loan word into several languages (from Italian: bagno). In English, French, and so on, it has developed varying meanings: typically a brothel...
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    The Bagnio is the fifth canvas in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage A-la-Mode painted by William Hogarth. The new Earl catches his...
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    the fifth painting, The Bagnio (the name on its frame: The killing of the earl), the new earl has caught his wife in a bagnio with her lover, the lawyer...
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    often hot and overcrowded. Bagnios had chapels, hospitals, shops and bars run by captives. Although the conditions in bagnios were harsh, they were better...
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  • the British Isles as a therapy, for personal cleansing, and socialising. Bagnio, a type of brothel Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997), or Hamam, a film The...
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    obscenest picture the world possesses." He proposed that "it was painted for a bagnio [brothel], and it was probably refused because it was a trifle too strong"...
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  • (literally a despicable coward or wretch) may mean: a galley-slave in a Barbary bagnio a Camarilla clanless character in Vampire: The Masquerade The Caitiff Choir...
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    June 28, 1874, stating, "The police spent a busy day today raiding the bagnios and honkytonks." There are subsequent citations from 1890 in The Dallas...
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    and, at other times, coffee houses, hotels, and houses of ill repute (bagnios) merged with, or replaced them, until a major fire destroyed them in 1768...
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  • at Chiswick had a number of these fabriques including the Ionic Temple, Bagnio, Pagan Temple, Rustic House, and two Deer Houses. Beyond the exedra in the...
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