menad

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A form of maenad — A female follower of Dionysus (“the god of wine”), associated with intense revelling.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

nounmenad (plural menads)

plural menads

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of maenad.

    All about the walls hung pen and oil sketches of fantastic sea-monsters; dances of satyrs and menads; […]

    1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “At the Barber’s Shop”, in Romola. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book I, page 309
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    We know from the subjects of his [Scopas's] famous statues recorded by ancient writers, such as the raving Menad, that his works were replete with life, movement and passion.

    1914, Charles Waldstein, “The Subject-matter of Art”, in Greek Sculpture and Modern Art: Two Lectures Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of London, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: [Cambridge] University Press, →OCLC, page 53

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