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Bacchante

noun
(pl. L. bacchantes)
1.
(classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus.





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... besought her to allow the flood of her hair to flow over her shoulders in a river of gold richer than the Pactolus, to encircle her brow with a crown of ivy and linden leaves like a bacchante of Mount Maenalus, to lie, hardly veiled by a cloud of tissue finer than woven wind, upon a tiger-skin with silver claws and ruby eyes, or to stand erect in a great shell of mother-of-pearl, with a dew of pearls falling from her tresses in lieu of ...
— King Candaules • Theophile Gautier


Words linked to "Bacchante" :   Greek mythology, votary, Roman mythology


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