bacchanals

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The office holiday gathering itself has come a long way from the bacchanals I survived early in my career.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Similar Christmas-themed bacchanals were slated in cities across the U.S. and Europe, from San Francisco and Cincinnati to London and Berlin, on Saturday.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

The younger Mr. Lebedev is known for throwing bacchanals at his converted castle in Italy.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2020

First, Europe’s Renaissance masquerade balls, which were also wild bacchanals.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2018

To this kind of study which he pursued with Marino, may perhaps be attributed Poussin's predilection for compositions wherein nymphs, and fairies, and bacchanals are the subjects—compositions in which he greatly excelled.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub