bacchante
/bəˈkɑnti/
noun
- A female follower of the ancient Greek god Bacchus, known for wild, ecstatic behavior.
- In the play, the bacchante led the chorus in a frenzy of song and dance.
- The museum's exhibit included a marble statue of a bacchante holding grapes.
- The ancient vase showed a bacchante dancing with a thyrsus in her hand.
- A woman who participates in wild, drunken revelry.
- At the costume party, she dressed as a bacchante, complete with a wreath of ivy.
- Her friends joked that she turned into a bacchante after just one glass of wine.
- The novel described the heroine as a modern bacchante, always at the center of the party.