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bacchanals
Part of speech: PluralDrunken feasts; feasts in honour of Bacchus.
Usage examples "bacchanals":- Ho, to the mountains; where the Chorus picture the scene already being enacted, the hunter of the Bacchanals caught in the inexorable net of death. - "Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy", Richard G. Moulton.
- Subdued and sheepish- looking bacchanals. - "The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52", Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe.
- Some of these bacchanals were among the most respectable and respected men upon the river. - "The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52", Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe.