Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice of bacchanalian rites; drunken revelry; riotous festivity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The practice of
bacchanalians ;bacchanals ;drunken revelry .
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Examples
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A bottle was opened, and the minister pledged the bride, and the bridesmaids simpered and tasted, and I made a speech with airy bacchanalianism, glass in hand.
The Wrecker 1898
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Their pale sun-gilt green set a glow of bacchanalianism about the weather-worn heads of the old orchard giants.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871
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