bacchant

Everyone who has ever seen a Jack Lemmon movie will instantly surmise that the model account exec is a three-button bacchant, and so he is.

From Time Magazine Archive

They also show off by picking up guitars and microphones and dancing like prairie bacchantes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019

The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom."

From Time Magazine Archive

Presently I noticed casually that a procession of bacchantes limned on the wall immediately below the ceiling had begun to move, traversing the room from right to left in a gay and spectacular pilgrimage.

From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

I have seen quiet Copenhageners, with Danish autumnal coolness in their veins, become political bacchantes at his playing.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

When I had finished reading Punch’s three columns of advertisements, and for the hundredth time made an examination of Toby, with the procession of nymphs, dancing buffoons, and bacchantes, the train stopped at Reading.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

He painted all sorts of subjects, but was seen at his best in mythological scenes with groups of drunken satyrs and bacchants, surrounded by a close-placed landscape.

From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

The influence, direct and indirect, of these German philosophers reached far beyond the narrow circle of the bacchants or even the wandbearers of idealism.

From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury

In their other religious festivals also, choruses of fauns and bacchants chaunted songs and held up individuals to public ridicule.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter