demi-vierge

[ dem-ee-vee-airzh; French duh-mee-vyerzh ]

noun

, plural de·mi-vierges [dem-ee-vee-, air, -zhiz, d, uh, -mee-, vyerzh].

1. a girl or woman who behaves in a sexually provocative and permissive way without yielding her virginity.

Word History and Origins

Origin of demi-vierge¹

< French: literally, half-virgin; after Les demi-vierges (1894), a novel by French writer Marcel Prévost (1862–1940)

Example Sentences

She had outwardly a tense markedly virginal quality but was inwardly insolently demi-vierge.

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There followed innocuous passages with a respectable demi-vierge, referred to in the journal as Adle of the Gate.

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The French type of the demi-vierge is just beginning to play its rôle in the new world.

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II sera pour vous une vierge, mieux qu'une vierge, il sera pour vous une demi-vierge.

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Who, even if this little fool were merely demi-vierge, would hesitate between them?

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