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• Bacchante

名詞

bacchante (plural bacchantes)

1. A priestess of Bacchus.

   Synonym: maenad

   Coordinate term: bacchant

2. A female bacchanal.

   Synonym: maenad

   Coordinate term: bacchant

   • 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. […] ”

参照

• “bacchante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Participle

bacchante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of bacchāns