Orgies

(n. pl.) A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry.

(n. pl.) Drunken revelry; a carouse.

(pl. ) of Orgy

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• This favoured tavern, sacred to the evening orgies of Mr. Lowten and his companions, was what ordinary people would designate a public-house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and shattered, in the evening. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

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