Definition of "bacchante" []

• Greek & Roman Mythology A priestess or female votary of Bacchus. (noun)

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• "The women—bare shouldered, their hair à la bacchante, with long curls at the back entwined with vine leaves and bunches of grapes—waltzed around the staid little queen."
• "Wherever she came there was laughter among the ladies, of the high hysteric bacchante kind, not true mirth, but"
• "Bacchus being carried by a satyr brandishing a thyrsus, and a torch-bearing bacchante."