English

Alternative forms

• Bacchante

Noun

bacchante ‎(plural bacchantes)

1. A priestess of Bacchus.
2. A female bacchanal.
   • 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. …”

Synonyms

• maenad

Related terms

• bacchant

References

• bacchante in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

French

Noun

bacchante f ‎(plural bacchantes)

1. bacchante
2. (especially in plural) moustache

Latin

Participle

bacchante

1. dative masculine singular of bacchāns
2. dative feminine singular of bacchāns
3. dative neuter singular of bacchāns