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Bacchant

noun
(pl. E. bacchants, L. bacchantes)
1.
Someone who engages in drinking bouts.  Synonyms: bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller.
2.
A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus.  Synonym: bacchanal.
3.
(classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus.



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"Bacchant" Quotes from Famous Books



... thousand Treshams—never one like her! No lighter of the signal-lamp her quick Foul breath near quenches in hot eagerness To mix with breath as foul! no loosener O' the lattice, practised in the stealthy tread, The low voice and the noiseless come-and-go! Not one composer of the bacchant's mien Into—what you thought Mildred's, in a word! ...
— A Blot In The 'Scutcheon • Robert Browning


Words linked to "Bacchant" :   juicer, Roman mythology, Greek mythology, lover, fan, votary, toper, drinker, devotee, imbiber, buff


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