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virginal
1[ vur-juh-nl ]
virginal
2[ vur-juh-nl ]
noun
- Often virginals. a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard, the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
virginal
1/ ˈvɜːdʒɪnəl /
noun
- often plural a smaller version of the harpsichord, but oblong in shape, having one manual and no pedals
virginal
2/ ˈvɜːdʒɪnəl /
adjective
- of, relating to, characterized by, proper to, or maintaining a state of virginity; chaste
- extremely pure or fresh; untouched; undefiled
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Derived Forms
- ˈvirginalist, noun
- ˈvirginally, adverb
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Other Words From
- virgin·al·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
McCarthy wore a virginal white wedding dress for the occasion.
The impression is left that this project would despoil a virginal natural landscape.
They need to be converted from 1990s-Lolita to virginal-Miss Havisham in a matter of minutes.
And on the page, we finally get to meet the virginal Carrie, literally pre- Sex.
Her face, too, was inexpressibly virginal in its expression of innocence and of melancholy suffering.
He saw a mere slender slip of a body, a virginal body, straight-clad; the body and the face of a white child.
But as soon as she had made this great advance, virginal instinct suggested a proportionate retreat.
The troubled virginal sweetness of the girl went to his soul.
Who that has had this window opened for him into the virginal chamber of awakening woman-life can look through it without tears?
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