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Bacchanal   /bəkˈeɪnəl/  /bˈækɪnəl/   Listen
Bacchanal

adjective
1.
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.  Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic.  "Carousing bands of drunken soldiers" , "Orgiastic festivity"





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"Bacchanal" Quotes from Famous Books



... towards the table, and retire with their loads of lusciousness. Grinning boys were up to their ears in juice, girls, bare-armed and bare-necked, reached for plates held teasingly aloft. It was all rather innocently bacchanal—a picture which for Becky had an absolutely impersonal quality. She had entertained her guests as she had eaten her dinner, outwardly doing the normal and conventional thing, while her mind was chaotic. This jumble of people on the lawn seemed unreal and detached. The only real people ...
— The Trumpeter Swan • Temple Bailey
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Words linked to "Bacchanal" :   fan, buff, revelry, imbiber, lover, devotee, revel, drunk, toper, juicer, inebriated, intoxicated, drinker


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