subs. (old).—A brothel; a STEW (q.v.). [Orig. a bathing-house]. Also BAINES.
1541. T. ELYOT, Image of Governance (1549), 6. In common BAINES and bordell houses.
1599. JOSEPH HALL, Satires, VI. i. 27. As pure as olde Labulla from the BAYNES.
1624. MASSINGER, The Parliament of Love, II. 2. To be sold to a brothel or a common BAGNIO.
1747. HOADLEY, The Suspicious Husband, ii. 4 (1756), 27. Carry her to BAGNIO, and there you may lodge with her.
1851. THACKERAY, English Humourists, v. (1858), 243. How the prodigal drinks and sports at the BAGNIO.
1862. T. WRIGHT, A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages, 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.
