bacchante
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English
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Noun
bacchante (plural bacchantes)
- a priestess of Bacchus
- a female bacchanal
- 1936, Herbert Adams, chapter 2, in A Word of Six Letters:
- “… 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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References
- “bacchante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bacchante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.kɑ̃t/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: bacchantes
Noun
bacchante f (plural bacchantes)
Further reading
- “bacchante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /bakˈkʰan.te/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bakˈkan.te/,
Participle
bacchante