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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Profane wears a point shoe on one foot while the other foot is bare; her hair falls, like a bacchante’s, down her shoulders.
From New York Times
She had the thoughtful brow and the words of wisdom for one class; the smile of the cupid and the laugh of the bacchante for another.
From Project Gutenberg
Her eyes were sparkling with merriment; but although she refilled her glass, there was no suggestion as yet of the bacchante about her.
From Project Gutenberg
But what struck me most was the dress, which even to the powder was like that of my father's bacchante.
From Project Gutenberg
She had a great quantity of fine chestnut hair, sufficient to cover her entirely, and thus, as a bacchante with flying hair, she was admirable to behold.
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