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Virginal

adjective

Characteristic of a virgin or virginity.

Untouched or undefiled.

In a state of sexual virginity. Synonyms: pure, vestal, virgin, virtuous. "A spinster or virgin lady" , "Men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal"

noun

A legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries. Synonym: pair of virginals.

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"Virginal" Quotes from Famous Books

... The flashing, imperious expression that so well became her bold beauty at other times had given place to a shy and blushing softness, inexpressibly charming to her lover. In her shining eyes a host of virginal alarms were mingled with the tender, solemn ...

— Dr. Heidenhoff's Process • Edward Bellamy

... keeping its secret inviolate. Heavens! supposing he had backed out of that catalogue, and Miss Harden had called in another expert. At this point he detected in himself a tendency to wander from the matter in hand. He reminded himself that whatever else he was there for, he was there to guard the virginal seclusion of the Aldine Plato, the Neapolitan Horace and the Aurea Legenda of Wynkyn de Worde. He tried to shut his eyes against his vivid and disturbing vision of the lady of the library. It suggested that he was allowing that innocent person to pay fifteen ...

— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair

... lovely. He did not think of trying to draw close to her or of winning her love. He looked at her as one might look at a star or across a country of low hills in October when the leaves of the trees are all red and yellow gold. "She is a pure, virginal thing," he thought vaguely. "What can she be thinking about as she sits there ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... patent and the remembered aspect. It reminds you of a friend who has been suddenly placed in new circumstances, in whom there is much that you recognise, and much that is entirely strange. How purely, divinely white when the last snowflake has just fallen! How exquisite and virginal the repose! It touches you like some perfection of music. And winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. Pluck a single ivy leaf from the old wall, and see what a jeweller he is! How he has silvered over the dark-green ...

— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith

... that the lives of the characters in the novels were not as real as her own. There were some for whom she would have laid down her life: the tender jealous creature, Lady Castlewood, the woman who loved in silence with her motherly virginal heart, was a sister to her: little Dombey was her own dear little boy: she was Dora, the child-wife, who was dying: she would hold out her arms to all those childlike souls which pass through the world with the honest eyes of purity: and around her there would pass a procession ...

— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland

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