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 Bacchant.Bacchis. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Bacchante (2 syl.).
 
A female winebibber; so called from the “bacchauts,” or female priestesses of Bacchus. They wore fillets of ivy.   1
 


 Bacchant.Bacchis. 

 
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