virginibus puerisque

American  

[wir-gin-i-boos poo-er-ees-kwe, ver-jin-uh-buhs pyoo-uh-ris-kwee] / wɪrˈgɪn ɪˌbʊs ˌpu ɛrˈis kwɛ, vərˈdʒɪn ə bəs ˌpyu əˈrɪs kwi /

Latin.

1. for girls and boys.

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Example Sentences

His patron's lucubrations have taken the turn of many other memoirs, and have ceased to address themselves virginibus puerisque.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 by James, Henry

This is the problem we have first to solve, and it may be said at once that this discourse does not apply virginibus puerisque.

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport

We do not want in Punch a moral paper virginibus puerisque," says M. Arsène Alexandre, in effect, in his important work "L'Art du Rire;" "Punch is un peu trop gentleman.

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)

Not virginibus puerisque will be my book, I assure you, but for men and women who like to look beneath the surface, and who understand that only as artistic material has human life any significance.

From The Unclassed by Gissing, George

There is, of course, a sort of background to all this audacious fooling, more definitely directed virginibus puerisque.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir