bacchanalian
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The bacchanalian troupe astonished audiences with their transcendent performances, leaving fans wanting more.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
Her new music reflects those bacchanalian nights, where people found freedom to be themselves "free from police, free from judgement", said Monaé.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2023
"With the bean now a baby and the ball a bacchanalian celebration, the cake remains a sweet way to break bread with your fellow revelers," he said.
From Fox News • Mar. 1, 2022
He was a bacchanalian young man then, and he opened Acme in an especially uninhibited moment of New York nightlife that mostly now only exists in blurry Blackberry photos that survive to tell the tale.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2022
Formerly “Jolly,” it was presumably too bacchanalian and not sufficiently aristocratic, and so it was changed, just as your “Smythe” was once Smith, and “Johnes” Jones.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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