thyrsus

Definitions

1. A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
2. A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

Equivalents

Examples

“1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poet's Calendar In my hand I bear⟳ / The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine.”

“As good to grow⟳ on graves / As twist⟳ about a thyrsus.”

“The champagne was done, and she upturned the bottle to hold⟳ it like⟳ a thyrsus.”

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