bacchante

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bacchante

noun bacchantes · Bacchante

A priestess of Bacchus.
Similar: maenad
A female bacchanal. “… There was a man who always painted marble seats and another who did nothing but sheep. So a fellow I knew determined only to paint backs. Men's backs, women's backs, girls' backs and boys backs. […] his best known bacchante was described by a critic as all back and no ante, but his backs became f
Similar: maenad

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noun a priestess of Bacchus

Русский	вакха́нка vakxánka

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@misc{bacchante_2026,
  title = {bacchante},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bacchante},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}