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    saturnalia


    1. It was apparent that Samson Duff‘s sexuality had not yet plumbed its depths as thoughts of Elise Jones and her scent welled into his consciousness, stimulated by the swinish saturnalia just witnessed


    2. Inflamed, not so much because of the damage as because of the disgust and pity that he felt for himself in the emptiness of the saturnalia, he armed himself with an ecclesiastical cat-o-nine-tails that he kept in the bottom of his trunk along with a hair-shirt and other instruments of mortification and penance, and drove the children out of the house, howling like a madman and whipping them without mercy as a person would not even have done to a pack of coyotes


    3. Saturnalia was like a festival around the winter solstice where the Romans


    4. Every winter, the Latin Club celebrated Saturnalia, an ancient Roman festival in honor of the deity Saturn


    5. We toasted each other by saying “Io Saturnalia!” and pretended to be drunk emperors in the teachers’ multipurpose room


    6. “[N]o matter where Van Halen alights,” Rolling Stone reported, “a boisterous, full-blown saturnalia is bound to follow


    7. If you wanted to decorate a laboratory in a general way, not being specific about the season but giving the impression of a cross between Saturnalia and a pageant of the Flags of all Nations, Lee Chong’s was the place to go for your stuff


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    Synonyms for "saturnalia"

    bacchanal bacchanalia debauch debauchery drunken revelry orgy riot saturnalia

    "saturnalia" definitions

    an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn


    a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity