Virginal
17 definitions retrieved Virginal \Vir"gin*al\, n. [Cf. F. virginale; -- probably so called from being used by young girls, or virgins.] (Mus.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals. [1913 Webster] Virginal \Vir"gin*al\, v. i. To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat. [Obs.] "Still virginaling upon his palm!" --Shak. [1913 Webster] Virginal \Vir"gin*al\, a. [L. virginalis: cf. F. virginal.] Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly. "Chastity and honor virginal." --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Virginal generation (Biol.), parthenogenesis. Virginal membrane (Anat.), the hymen. [1913 Webster] virginal adj 1: characteristic of a virgin or virginity; "virginal white dresses" 2: untouched or undefiled; "nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage"- L.P.Smith 3: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" [syn: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous] n 1: a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries [syn: virginal, pair of virginals] virginal [vəːdʒinl] jungfräulich virginal [vəːdʒinl] vierge; virginal virginal szûz- szûzi virginal [vəːdʒinl] maagdelijk; ongerept virginal [vəːdʒinl] virgem, virginal virginal [vəːdʒinl] jungfrulig virginal [virʒinal] jungfräulich; rein; unberührt virginal [virʒinal] virgin; virginal virginal [virʒinal] maagdelijk; ongerept virginal jungfräulich; rein; unberührt virginal virgin; virginal virginal jungfräulich 75 Moby Thesaurus words for "virginal": Platonic, abstinent, artless, bachelorlike, budding, callow, celibate, continent, dewy, ever-new, evergreen, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, green, growing, husbandless, immature, impubic, in the raw, inartificial, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, juicy, maiden, maidenly, minor, naive, native, natural, neoteric, nestling, new, new-fledged, old-maidish, original, pristine, raw, ripening, sappy, sempervirent, single, sole, spinsterish, spinsterlike, spinsterly, spouseless, tender, unadult, unbeaten, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, unlicked, unmarried, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, unspoiled, unsullied, untapped, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unwed, unwedded, vernal, vestal, virgin, young Virginal related |
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