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bacchante

[ buh-kan-tee, -kahn-, buh-kant, -kahnt ]

noun

  1. a female bacchant.

bacchante

/ bəˈkæntɪ /

noun

  1. a priestess or female votary of Bacchus
  2. a drunken female reveller
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bacchante1

1790–1800; back formation from Latin bacchantēs, feminine plural of bacchāns bacchant; pronunciation with silent -e < French bacchante, feminine of bacchant bacchant
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Example Sentences

At the center of the sanctuary stood Perrette the Ribald, her hair disheveled like a Bacchante's.

Cagliostro looked with horror upon the ashes of the Bacchante.

She was attired like a Bacchante, with bands of fur in her hair, topped by bunches of gold grapes.

A very beautiful Etruscan mirror with Bacchus, or a Bacchante, riding on a panther upon the cover.

The arms of a sweetly pretty Bacchante are entwined round the neck of the maudlin reveller.

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