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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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
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,
virtuous]
n : a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women)
in the 16th and 17th centuries [syn: pair of virginals]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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