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bakchoi

bakchoi noun: in the Eleusinian Mysteries, the branches that initiates swung along the ground along the Sacred Way, the 22-kilometer pilgrimage from Athens to Eleusis.

Noun

bakchoi pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, Ancient Greece) In the Eleusinian Mysteries, the branches that initiates swung along the ground along the Sacred Way, the 22-kilometer pilgrimage from Athens to Eleusis.

Origin of bakchoi

From Ancient Greek βάκχοι (bákkhoi), from Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

Questions about bakchoi

What does bakchoi mean?
Bakchoi means in the Eleusinian Mysteries, the branches that initiates swung along the ground along the Sacred Way, the 22-kilometer pilgrimage from Athens to Eleusis.
What part of speech is bakchoi?
Bakchoi is a noun.

Words near bakchoi in the dictionary

  1. Bakatan
  2. Bakavi
  3. bakaw
  4. bakchod
  5. bakchodi
  6. bakchoi
  7. bake
  8. bake in
  9. bake off
  10. bake out
  11. bake oven

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