[syn: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Virginal generation (Biol.), parthenogenesis.
Virginal membrane (Anat.), the hymen.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]