The term originally meant a small villa, summerhouse or pavilion built for pleasure, usually on the grounds of a larger Italian villa or palazzo.There are examples of such casinos at Villa Giulia and Villa Farnese.
During the 19th century, the term casino came to include other more public buildings where pleasurable activities, including gambling and sports, took place.
An example of this type of building is the Newport Casino. In modern Italian, this term designates a bordello (also called "casa chiusa", literally "closed house"), while the gambling house is spelled casinò with an accent.
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