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virginal 音标拼音: [v'ɚdʒənəl] a. 处女的;纯洁的;无垢的 处女的;纯洁的;无垢的 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" [ synonym: { pure}, { vestal}, { virgin}, { virginal}, { virtuous}] n 1: a legless rectangular harpsichord; played ( usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries [ synonym: { virginal}, { pair of virginals}] 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 \ 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] 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
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