virginal
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1. virginal - Noun
2. virginal - Adjective
3. virginal - Verb
4. virginal - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.
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.
To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.
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pure and vestal modesty
a spinster or virgin lady
men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal
nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage
virginal white dresses
An ottavino of model VIII is inserted into the case of the virginal like a drawer slipping into a bureau."