bacchante

noun — 2 senses

bacchante

noun
1

A priestess of Bacchus.

2

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. […]”1936, Herbert Adams, chapter 2, in A Word of Six Letters:

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