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17 nautical terms (boats, equipment, etc.)
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bagnio
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synonyms: hummum, hammam, kip ???
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Definition:1. A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]2. A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Jeanne Vaubernier—known in the bagnios by the name of Mademoiselle Lange—was born at Vaucouleurs, as was Jeanne d'Arc.
Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon. Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry; with intimate details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV (p. 21).
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runners, flatcaps, waistcoateers, ladies of the bagnio and other rogues of the game or with a chanceable catchpole or a tipstaff often at nights till broad day of whom he picked up between his sackpossets much loose gossip.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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