bacchantes
- plural of bacchant.
Example Sentences
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They also show off by picking up guitars and microphones and dancing like prairie bacchantes.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2019
The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom."
From Time Magazine Archive
Satyrs, fauns and bacchantes saluted him, tumbled him, buffeted him: one snatched off his scarlet fillet and crowned him with a wreath of grape-leaves, while a second thrust a thyrsus into his hand.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
It was nymphs, nymphs, dryads, bacchantes, running down from the heights into the plain….
From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
There were many men in line, marching along more or less soberly; but these bacchantes outnumbered them two to one.
From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
