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  What it means

  Literally “bloody bathhouse.” Describes a massacre, a scene of terrible carnage — “a bloodbath.”

  Vocabulary

  • krwawy — bloody
  • łaźnia — bathhouse, steam bath

  Grammar note

  Nominative feminine noun phrase. 'Krwawa' agrees with 'łaźnia'.

  Cultural context

  The bathhouse as a place of cleansing turned into a place of slaughter — a powerful inversion. Poland's turbulent history gives this phrase particular weight.

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