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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bacchante

(2 syl.) A female winebibber; so called from the “bacchantes,” or female priestesses of Bacchus. They wore fillets of ivy.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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