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Maenad   Listen
Maenad

noun
1.
An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
2.
(Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus.





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"Maenad" Quotes from Famous Books



... debonnaire In very truth is not more fair, Than the shy grace and purity That clothe the maiden maidenly; Her gray eyes shine more tenderly And not less bright than thine her hair; Ah, Manon, say! Expound, I pray, the mystery Why wine-stained lip and languid eye, And most unsaintly Maenad air, Should move us more than all the rare White roses ...
— The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson • Ernest Dowson et al


Words linked to "Maenad" :   Greek mythology, woman, adult female


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