Usage of "vestal virgin"

Russian

весталки

Portuguese

virgens vestais

Spanish

vestales

Catalan

verge vestal

Priestesses of goddess Vesta in Ancient Rome.

Related terms

весталки

Usage of vestal virgin in English

The legal rights of a vestal virgin were set forth in detail. 
 Myths of Babylonia and Assyria 

Her full, gentle figure had the charm of the vestal virgin and the wife. 
 Atlantis 

You're a vestal virgin and the men are gods. 
 G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery 

I flagged down another ample-hipped vestal virgin and got $10 more. 
 The Lost Continent 

I can't play the vestal virgin for my art. 
 The Guardian 

She was no vestal virgin, that was for sure, but a real opportunity never presented itself. 
 Act of treason 

Not even a vestal virgin is safe from infecting someone, as she can carry corona too. 
 Jamaica Observer 

She is the vestal virgin who, so far as she can, prevents them from going out. 
 Light 

It seemed that Lady Holme's secret hostility to Miss Schley was returned by the vestal virgin. 
 The Woman with the Fan 

Oppia, a vestal virgin, buried alive for incontinence. 
 The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 

Minucia, a vestal virgin, was condemned for incest. 
 The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 

I don't expect she is exactly a vestal virgin, though I have never heard anything against her. 
 The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1... 

She had a half-sister, probably older than herself, of the name of Fabia, who was a vestal virgin. 
 Roman life in the days of Cicero 

Don't worry about the vestal virgin. 
 My Friend the Chauffeur 

She possessed in his eyes something of the sanctity of a vestal virgin, one who must not be profaned by marriage. 
 The Mayor of Warwick 

All gazed at him now, not excepting Poppæa, or the vestal virgin Rubria, whom Cæsar wished to see at the feast. 
 Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero 