witches' Sabbath
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of witches' Sabbath
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the participants in this witches' Sabbath are busy at its quieter passages, they make rather a good thing of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was something far worse here than dirt, a kind of frightening witches’ Sabbath.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Saturday is likewise esteemed an inauspicious day, which points to its association with the witches' Sabbath, once the subject of numerous superstitious beliefs throughout the southern provinces of Italy.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
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