bacchanalian \ ˌba-kə-ˈnāl-yən , ˌbä- \ adjective or noun
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//And while those bacchanalia were underway, Jesse Hawkins, founder of The Mocktail Project, was mixing up mocktails—a popular term for nonalcoholic cocktails—just a few blocks away off Bourbon Street.
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Emily Price, Fortune, "At Cocktails’ Biggest Conference, the Discussion Turns to Not Drinking," 3 Aug. 2019
//And the move to ban outside alcohol has also been credited with taming the debauchery of the infield, as the jockey club has since emphasized music over bacchanalia.
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Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, "Preakness 2018 attendees face stricter regulations on outside food, drink," 18 May 2018
//Their bacchanalia of a playoff series begins with Game 1 tonight.
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Matt Murray, WSJ, "The 10-Point.," 14 May 2018
//Some billionaires find Vegas irresistible for its bacchanalia, but Steyer was drinking seltzer with cranberry juice, light on the juice.
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Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, "Call Him Mr. Impeachment: Tom Steyer’s War Against Donald Trump," 25 Apr. 2018
//One of Tape One would start slow and mellow — guest-arrival music — then build in tempo and intensity until somewhere around Tape Three the bacchanalia soundtrack kicked in.
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Washington Post, "Party like it’s 1989: What should you do with all those old cassette mix tapes?," 25 Feb. 2018
//Another theory suggested that playing drums in the streets in the night — especially during the bacchanalia of Carnival season, when drum groups perform most intensely — is too time-consuming and dangerous for women, who should instead stay home.
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New York Times, "They Told the Women in Bahia They Couldn’t Drum. Try Telling That to Banda Didá.," 30 Jan. 2018
//The show's second season, which began January 14, opens with Holmes, despite his lingering Christian guilt, enjoying a veritable bacchanalia of booze and women at a nightclub called the Hole with some new comedy buddies.
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Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, "Pete Holmes on navigating pop culture post-Weinstein," 17 Jan. 2018
//Once again, designer Suzanne Tucker presided as chairwoman of this beloved bacchanalia of Grade A goods — the largest on the West Coast.
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Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle, "Fall Art & Antiques show a hothouse hit," 31 Oct. 2017
First Known Use of bacchanalia
1591, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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