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Virgin's bower   /vˈərdʒənz bˈaʊər/   Listen
noun
Virgin  n.  
1.
A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
2.
A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. (Archaic) "These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins." "He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said."
3.
(Astron.) See Virgo.
4.
(Zool.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
5.
(Zool.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect.
The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ.
Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Virgin's bower" Quotes from Famous Books



... then she caught sight of the watchers upon the terrace. If so, not a movement betrayed her. As though reluctantly, she released the branch and, as it sprang upward, resumed her way up the path, disappearing for a moment under a massed canopy of Virgin's Bower. A few seconds, and she would emerge into view again, almost at the foot ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch



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