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bacchanalia
Part of speech: PluralDrunken feasts; feasts in honour of Bacchus.
Usage examples "bacchanalia":- Still, the fact remains that a man who was affectionate and loving to his children, generous and warm- hearted to his friends, and whose books are the very bacchanalia of benevolence, pilloried his parents to make the groundlings laugh, and this fact every biographer of Dickens should face and, if possible, explain. - "Reviews", Oscar Wilde.
- Bill turned to greet her, holding out his hand, and his broad shoulders shut out the view of Bacchanalia. - "The Plunderer", Roy Norton.
- The sights below were out of a ghoul's bacchanalia. - "The Sky Is Falling", Lester del Rey.