Bacchanalia
noun
a festival in honor of Bacchus.
bacchanalianism
-
a word derived from
Bacchanalia.
Example Sentences
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Their pale sun-gilt green set a glow of bacchanalianism about the weather-worn heads of the old orchard giants.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
