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demi-vierge

American

[dem-ee-vee-airzh, duh-mee-vyerzh] / ˌdɛm i viˈɛərʒ, də miˈvjɛrʒ /

noun

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

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Noun Inflected Forms

demi-vierges

plural

Etymology

Origin of demi-vierge

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

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Hence our Platonic touch: our demi-vierge attitude in matters of the mind, our academic horror of clean thinking.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

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