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bassarid|ˈbæsərɪd|
[ad. L. Bassarid-, Bassaris, a. Gr. βασσαρίς a Thracian bacchanal, lit. a fox, prob. from their dress, made of fox-skins (βασσάρα a fox).]
A Thracian bacchanal; a bacchante.
1865Swinburne Atalanta 108 And Pan by noon and Bacchus by night,..fills with delight The Mænad and the Bassarid. 1871― Songs before Sunrise 5 Hills that hid The blood-feasts of the Bassarid. 1948R. Graves Coll. Poems 239 Her Bassarids now bed With the ignoble usurer. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxix. 77 Shake the castagnettes of the bassarids. |