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- noun Plural form of
maenad .
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Examples
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Just about everyone I know has lost interest in this one, now that every supernatural strata werewolves, fairies, maenads, shape shifters has entered the picture.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking's Year in Television 2011 Holly Cara Price 2011
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Just about everyone I know has lost interest in this one, now that every supernatural strata werewolves, fairies, maenads, shape shifters has entered the picture.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking's Year in Television 2011 Holly Cara Price 2011
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Bacchus, Greek god of wine, led bands of maenads on drunken rites considered so unpredictable they contained an essence of the secrets of the Gods themselves.
Network Awesome: Alcohol and Charles Bukowski Network Awesome 2011
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Just about everyone I know has lost interest in this one, now that every supernatural strata werewolves, fairies, maenads, shape shifters has entered the picture.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking's Year in Television 2011 Holly Cara Price 2011
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We of course will provide our own livestock, our own wine, our own maenads.
Sean Paige: Dionysians Decry Air Force Academy Discrimination Sean Paige 2011
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There are postcards of Tolstoy's burial in 1910; Lady Ottoline Morrell's snapshot of children dancing around like raving maenads; a scrapbook of images by a teenage boy titled "Girls I Have Known"; and a 1918 aerial view of a bombarded French village from World War I, taken by Steichen, who had helped organize the U.S. Army's Aerial Reconnaissance Division.
From the Shadows of Giants Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Just about everyone I know has lost interest in this one, now that every supernatural strata werewolves, fairies, maenads, shape shifters has entered the picture.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking's Year in Television 2011 Holly Cara Price 2011
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Just about everyone I know has lost interest in this one, now that every supernatural strata werewolves, fairies, maenads, shape shifters has entered the picture.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking's Year in Television 2011 Holly Cara Price 2011
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She knew the near-drunk terror of the dark wood, where Dionysos called his maenads.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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As the hook pulled her offstage, she'd go screaming, dragging the podium with her, while her shrieking maenads pelted the stage with rotten fruit and bitter accusations of "misogyny."
Hillary Camp: Obama's "Plan" To Declare Victory Is Insult To Her "17 Million Supporters" 2009
chained_bear commented on the word maenads
Usage on oreibasia.
March 12, 2009