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Meanings of virginal in английском
A legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Synonyms
Examples for "pure"
Examples for "pure"
1
However, a 'no refunds' policy for pure change of mind is acceptable.
2
The air was pure and fresher; the mules and the travellers revived.
3
In the case of the desert, it is conversion, pure and simple.
4
The chief factor in the purchase of Alaska was almost pure sentiment.
5
The ladies soon reappeared in spotless white; emblems of their pure minds.
1
The land was virgin and unoccupied; it was his; he was alone.
2
However, virgin females showed no maternal behaviour in response to vaginal-cervical stimulation.
3
I'm sure at your age, virgin or not, you understand my meaning.
4
Her virgin fancy demands the Tennysonian ideal, the grave and knightly Arthur.
5
It is against Roman law to execute a female virgin, he said.
1
The former innocent, stable and virtuous; the latter exciting, seductive and dangerous.
2
The virtuous rests in bliss in this world and in the next.
3
The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and in the next.
4
Are Irish banks really 10 times as virtuous as their British counterparts?
5
She was the one pure and virtuous figure in the Court life.
1
The legal rights of a vestal virgin were set forth in detail.
2
And Thusis wore her vestal veil in the full sun of noon.
3
There is something divine in every vestal, and Rubria is very beautiful.
4
She stood before him like a vestal guarding her temple from desecration.
5
Part of this vestal vow, I remember, was contained in the following verse:-
Usage of virginal in английском
1
The virginal heart of the girl was roused with a nameless terror.
2
He noted her virginal bosom heaving in a new and strange emotion.
3
The sand was virginal-nosign of Richard or of the dune buggy.
4
All this virginal freshness invites the primitive instincts of play and disorder.
5
It is a harpsichord, but the intonation is that of a virginal.
6
At each moment the contours of her virginal figure revealed fresh charms.
7
There was something cheeky and pre-adolescent about him- akindof virginal ferocity.
8
No portrait, it was said, ever did justice to her virginal beauty.
9
Balm for the eyes and ears of your own brother's virginal daughter!
10
Garrick took pride in their sumptuousness, in their immaculate, virginal splendour.
11
All her virginal and girlish loveliness was his for a mad moment; then-
12
And so the virginal instinct of self-defence carried her off swiftly and cleverly.
13
In her hard-working, virginal life her theories had wrought no mischief.
14
She did not make the startled virginal resistance of a girl.
15
She came in a soft, white gown that clung to her virginal figure.
16
No flowers, no organ, no feeling sweet and virginal in a long veil.
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Virginal through the time
Virginal across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common