bacchante
Americannoun
noun
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a priestess or female votary of Bacchus
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a drunken female reveller
Etymology
Origin of bacchante
1790–1800; back formation from Latin bacchantēs, feminine plural of bacchāns bacchant; pronunciation with silent -e < French bacchante, feminine of bacchant bacchant
Example Sentences
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In Paris she became a pupil, later a good friend of aging Auguste Rodin, won her first real fame with a bronze of Anna Pavlova as a dancing bacchante.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The computer has enshrined statistics," says M.I.T.'s Professor Harold A. "This is not a love-in," squawked a pimply bacchante, "it's a cash-in."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Like a bacchante after libations," she would stumble along, "nose and . . . forehead covered with yellow pollen, her hair in disorder and full of twigs, a bump here and a scratch there."
From Time Magazine Archive
"In truth," said Gringoire to himself, "she is a salamander, she is a nymph, she is a goddess, she is a bacchante of the Menelean Mount!"
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood
"It is a bacchante," was the only answer given me.
From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper M?rim?e
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