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Bout of bacchanalia
Answer for the clue "Bout of bacchanalia ", 4 letters:
orgy
Alternative clues for the word orgy
Word definitions for orgy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, orgies (plural) "secret rites in the worship of certain Greek and Roman gods," especially Dionysus, from Middle French orgies (c.1500, from Latin orgia ), and directly from Greek orgia (plural) "secret rites," especially those of Bacchus, from PIE ...
Usage examples of orgy.
The smells of allspice and ginger and coriander and turmeric and apples and mangoes and raisins and lemons and peaches and cranberries and apricots and onions mingle together in an orgy of fragrance, and leave my apartment through the window, reaching for the sky.
I fetched Astoria out of the orgy the last time you arrived and she nearly tore my balls off!
The respectable Cressida Mandeville, dead in a lewd costume after a lewd display at a lewd orgy.
Tiverton had agreed that there was absolutely no chance that this Miss Mandeville led a secret life, attending orgies in outrageous costumes.
Not in wanton orgy and obscenity, as the Middle Ages misconceived his desires, but in praise and in the deep, dark joy that issues forth from Blackness.
As the circle narrowed, and as we caught occasional glimpses of a terrified kangaroo, the cries and antics of Musqueeto and the other natives to the right and left, who were in sight, became more violent and furious, and the black naked savages, rattling their spears and brandishing their waddies, and screaming and dancing about in the most raging state of excitement, resembled a band of demons engaged in some infernal orgies.
Mexico no longer had the flow of petrodollars to meet the interest payments, the orgy of greed ended.
Having heard previously sundry menaces, which had been made by these preposterous and incarnadine individuals of hell, now on trial in prospect of condign punishment, fulminated against the longer continuance of my corporeal salubrity, for no better reason than that I reprobated their criminal orgies, and not wishing my reflections to be disturbed, I hurried my steps with a gradual accelerated motion.
The teenage orgies, boys and girls screwing, fighting and beer guzzling with a medicine kit of drugs from the various pharmacies.
It had only been nine in the morning but the stereo was on, both TVs, and it sounded like an orgy was going on in the basement playroom.
He stood listening for a moment and heard the distant murmur of the orgy.
In a moment all four stood in the white, listening to the distant orgy.
When he had done so, again with the females aligned behind him, he stood in a much larger room, larger even than the new orgy room of Joy Hall, with white walls, the ubiquitous white-lit ceiling, though at least twelve feet high, and firm grey floor.
Usherdown and the Saint through four separate formality barriers manned by Qabati militia in facsimiles of British battle dress but still capped with the square rope-bound cowls of their forefathers, who had every air of being set for an orgy of red tape at the expense of any unprivileged passengers.
Nevertheless, the constant feasting and orgies of the rude Gallic troops at the sacrificial banquets were an ongoing scandal to the refined and delicate Antiochians, who night after night suffered drunken, carousing foreign soldiers rampaging through their streets, and were unable to hide their resentment.