Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bacchant

A person given to habits of drinking; so called from the “bacchants,” or men admitted to the feasts of Bacchus. Bacchants wore fillets of ivy.

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