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- noun Plural form of
thyrse .
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Examples
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St. Nil adds that the car was preceded by two choirs of priestesses of Bacchus, who carried the thyrses in their hands.
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Mirk lay outside, but our quest leads over misty mountains over tribes of thyrses:
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The poles of the thyrses, which dragged behind them like the spears of wounded men, were dabbled all over with bloodstained hand-prints.
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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Around the quadriga ran men who shook thyrses ornamented with ribbons; others beat drums; others scattered flowers.
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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Greece and the journey in a thousand ships; a kind of triumphal advance of Bacchus among nymphs and bacchantes crowned with myrtle, vine, and honeysuckle; there will be women in tiger skins harnessed to chariots; flowers, thyrses, garlands, shouts of 'Evoe!' music, poetry, and applauding
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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"Ce sont des fleurs etranges, Et traitresses, avec leurs airs de sceptres d'anges, De thyrses lumineux pour doigts de seraphins,
The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889
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