bacchant

Everyone who has ever seen a Jack Lemmon movie will instantly surmise that the model account exec is a three-button bacchant, and so he is.

From Time Magazine Archive

They also show off by picking up guitars and microphones and dancing like prairie bacchantes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019

The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom."

From Time Magazine Archive

The citizens were no longer the descendants of Quirites, remnant of the Pharaohs or the Macedonian kings, but satyrs, fauns, bacchantes, nymphs, mimes and harlequins.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

Then, still pursued by the flying amorettes, the bacchantes, fauns, satyrs, nymphs, and youths depart in various directions.

From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

It is littered with brushes, canvases, casts, etc., and its walls are frescoed indiscriminately with saints and bacchantes, satyrs and Madonnas, on backgrounds religious or woodland.

From The Immortal Lure by Rice, Cale Young

He painted all sorts of subjects, but was seen at his best in mythological scenes with groups of drunken satyrs and bacchants, surrounded by a close-placed landscape.

From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by Van Dyke, John Charles

The influence, direct and indirect, of these German philosophers reached far beyond the narrow circle of the bacchants or even the wandbearers of idealism.

From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)

In their other religious festivals also, choruses of fauns and bacchants chaunted songs and held up individuals to public ridicule.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)