bacchant

Example Sentences

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In one section, two dancers turn and leap like ballet bacchantes.

From New York Times

But in 1979, when Jerome Robbins made his Verdi ballet “The Four Seasons” for City Ballet, he specifically and effectively imitated those very bacchantes and satyrs.

From New York Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

Among them, with trunks caught as it were in the warm embraces of these troops of bacchantes, are thousands of silver-green olive-trees.

From Project Gutenberg

The citizens were no longer the descendants of Quirites, remnant of the Pharaohs or the Macedonian kings, but satyrs, fauns, bacchantes, nymphs, mimes and harlequins.

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