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Meanings of saturnalia in English
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
Usage of saturnalia in English
1
I prefer the opera-balls to the saturnalia of the Goddess of Reason.
2
With nightfall the saturnalia of death would begin again with redoubled force.
3
I never see her, but amid all the saturnalia she haunts me.
4
The saturnalia, subdued for a moment, threatened at times to renew itself.
5
But the dram-drinking and nose-slitting of the saturnalia of Charles II.
6
One of the damnedest in our whole saturnalia of the accursed-
7
Your grandfather was the cause of the saturnalia which desolated France.
8
The usual signs of approaching high saturnalia at Machecoul had not been wanting.
9
And I remember that she seemed to describe afterwards a sort of saturnalia.
10
The marquis, however, while he permitted these saturnalia, invariably held aloof.
11
The firmness of the commanding officers got the better of these saturnalia, by degrees.
12
It was Saturday-thesaturnalia of schoolboys-anda day of rest to the venerable teacher.
13
The saturnalia that succeeded the capture of the castaway had come to a close.
14
Carnegie recalled the desperate saturnalia he'd seen in the cages.
15
Elections are no more the saturnalia they used to be in the good old times.
16
The whole ceremonies lasted several days, or even weeks, and formed a kind of saturnalia.
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Saturnalia through the time