defloration
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of defloration
1350–1400; Middle English defloracioun < Old French defloracion < Late Latin dēflōrātiōn- (stem of dēflōrātiō ) a plucking of flowers, equivalent to dēflōrāt ( us ) (past participle of dēflōrāre to deflower ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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One of the movie’s funniest, most satisfying moments is a reconstruction of Hamrouni’s wedding night, in which she refuses her groom’s clumsy advances and ingeniously subverts the traditional flaunting of a virgin bride’s defloration.
From Los Angeles Times
Despite Soviet prohibition, Russian women in the 1930s used cannabis mixed with lamb’s fat, or nasha, on their wedding night “to reduce the pain of defloration.”
From Salon
Watts, V. M. Growth and fruiting responses to pruning and defloration of tomato plants.
From Project Gutenberg
Why are there no external symptoms of defloration, nor any pathognomick of the loss of virginity but a big belly?
From Project Gutenberg
Noble and beautiful customs: Compulsory defloration of young girls, as a result of the belief that a girl who died a virgin could not enter heaven!
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