Bacchante

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A priestess of Bacchus.
  2. 2
    (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus wordnet
  3. 3
    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 famous. […]”"

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"On the other hand, the men treading in the wine-presses were loud in their praises of Chloe, and at sight of her they danced and stamped like so many Satyrs in presence of a Bacchante; exclaiming that they would gladly become sheep to be fed and tended by such a shepherdess."

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