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bacchantes
Part of speech: NounThe persons who took part in the festivals of Bacchus.
Usage examples "bacchantes":- The first scene of the opera represents the charmed grotto where Venus gently seeks to beguile the discontented knight, while nymphs, loves, bacchantes, and lovers whirl about in the graceful mazes of the dance, or pose in charming attitudes. - "Stories of the Wagner Opera", H. A. Guerber.
- The vestibule, coloured in French gray, contains, in the intervals between the doors, figures of Bacchantes, and, in the ceiling, wreaths of roses and other ornaments painted in imitation of relief. - "Paris As It Was and As It Is", Francis W. Blagdon.
- The forest is not dead to him, but animate; life does not stop at human beings; fauns emerge from the bushes, naiads from the rivers, bacchantes from the mountains, and all swarm round Helen in her despair, luring her to their lust, till she flees to Zeus in death. - "Émile Verhaeren", Stefan Zweig.