bacchante /ˈbakənt 
/ (also bacchant) ▸ noun (plural bacchantes /bəˈkantiːz/) (plural or bacchants)
(in ancient Greece) a priest, priestess, or follower of the god Bacchus (Dionysus): the painting shows a bacchante carrying a child.
– DERIVATIVES bacchantic /bəˈkantɪk/ adjective – ORIGIN late 16th century: from French bacchante, from Latin bacchari ‘celebrate the feast of Bacchus’.
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