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Bacchante (2 syl.)

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A female winebibber; so called from the “bacchautēs,” or female priestesses of Bacchus. They wore fillets of ivy.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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