Crossword clues for bacchante
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bacchante \Bac"chante\, n.; L. pl. Bacchantes.
A priestess of Bacchus.
A female bacchanal.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A priestess of Bacchus. 2 A female bacchanal. n. 1 A priestess of Bacchus. 2 A female bacchanal.
WordNet
n : (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus
Usage examples of "bacchante".
These two Bacchantes began to imitate the caresses I lavished on my housekeeper, who was quite astonished at the amorous fury with which my attendant played the part of a man with the other girl.
I finished the puzzle, tossed the paper aside, and went from the bacchante room into the kitchen, then started out the back door.
We ate lunch from folding tables in the bacchante room so we could watch the replays of the Olympic events.
Beth jumped up, white-faced, and I told her to get the emergency Medihaler from the drawer, then took Kate into the bacchante room and laid her on the sofa.
Beth came down a few moments later I carried her martini and my Scotch into the bacchante room.
That night, after Kate had gone to sleep, I brought the little wooden cask down from the cupboard shelf and, sitting in the bacchante room, drank from it again.
Seated in the bacchante room after dinner, I would catch her as her needle paused in midair while she stared off into space.
Her hands trembled as she picked up the tureen from the table and went swiftly through the bacchante room into the kitchen.
Still dazed, I found the copy of the New English Bible and, confronting Beth in the bacchante room, swore on the Book never to have anything to do with Tamar again.
She went from the bacchante room to the kitchen, leaving behind the scent of the lilacs she had arranged on the sideboard.
And where it slipped under the window of the bacchante room it mixed with and circulated the perfume of the lilacs.
She came walking briskly from the kitchen, softening her step as she came into the bacchante room.
Breathless from the dance, her hair as disheveled as a genuine bacchante, Messalina screamed with delight and shook the ivy-twined staff of Bacchus.
His eyes rested idly on a little old coloured print of a Bacchante, with flowing green scarf, shaking a tambourine at a naked Cupid, who with a baby bow and arrow in his hands, was gazing up at her.
Queen of Sheba, Such serious questions bringing, That merry rascal Solomon Would show a sober face: -- And then again Pavlova To set our spirits singing, The snowy-swan bacchante All glamour, glee and grace.