bacchante
- noun
- /bæˈkænt/
- Archaic
:
bacante
- As a bacchante, she participated in rituals honoring Bacchus, celebrating the spirit of wine and festivity.
Examples
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"You see," Fred told Molly, "you could have been a bacchante."
Fiction book (1995) -
He invents two blockading ships called "the Nymph and her frequent companion the Bacchante."
Academic text (1996) -
Oil on canvas, linty by twenty-three inches, signed and dated 1887, in which a young bacchante is crowning with a wreath, the berm of Bacchus?
Fiction book (1995) -
He took my mother to the hotel's Bacchante Room, where the waitresses wore short translucent skirts, to the Lafayette on the Boston Post Road, and gin mills on the way to Pawtucket.
Fiction book (1996) -
At the festival, she dressed as a bacchante and danced joyfully among the revelers.
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The ancient sculptures often depicted a bacchante holding a wine cup and surrounded by grapevines.
Synonyms
A person who joins ancient wild ceremonies for Bacchus, the god of wine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bacchante comes from the Roman god Bacchus, who was the god of 'wine' and wild parties. A bacchante was a woman who joined noisy, dancing ceremonies wearing grape vines, so the word means a female follower of Bacchus or a woman taking part in wild, wine-filled celebrations.
