Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - virginal
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1. If you describe someone as virginal, you mean that they look young and innocent, as if they have had no experience of sex. Somehow she’d always been a child in his mind, pure and virginal... = pure ADJ 2. Something that is virginal looks new and clean, as if it has not been used or spoiled. ...abandoning worn-out land to cultivate virginal pasture. ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. adjective Date: 15th century 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a virgin or virginity; especially pure, chaste a ~ young girl 2. pristine, unsullied a ~ snowfall • ~ly adverb II. noun Etymology: probably from Latin ~is of a virgin, from virgin-, virgo Date: 1530 a small rectangular spinet having no legs and only one wire to a note and popular in the 16th and 17th centuries — often used in plural; called also pair of ~s • ~ist noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. that is or befits or belongs to a virgin. --n. (usu. in pl.) (in full pair of virginals) an early form of spinet in a box, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Derivatives virginalist n. virginally adv. Etymology: ME f. OF virginal or L virginalis (as VIRGIN): name of the instrument perh. from its use by young women ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. девственный; невинный, непорочный 2. девичий 3. чистый, нетронутый 4. обыкн. pl. муз. ист. верджинел, разновидность клавесина (также pair of virginals) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I adj. девственный; невинный, непорочный Syn: see innocent II noun hist.; mus. спинет без ножек (тж. virginals, pair of virginals) ...Англо-русский словарь
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