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bacchanalia

Definition of bacchanalia:

Drunken feasts; feasts in honour of Bacchus.

Usage examples for bacchanalia:

As a senile Silenus, he presided over the most remarkable bacchanalia "Paul Verlaine" – Stefan Zweig

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