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Definition of virginal in English: virginaladjective ˈvəːdʒɪn(ə)lˈvərdʒənl Being, relating to, or appropriate for a virgin. （关于）处女的；童贞的 处女似的羞怯。 Example sentencesExamples - In fact when we first meet her she seems quite virginal.
- As for me, spinsters have no need for virginal innocence.
- The virginal mind is innocent in the positive sense.
- In Chaplin's film it is love at first sight and the tramp will do anything he can to help the blind heroine. They both have the innocence of schoolchildren, and theirs is the virginal dream of love, not the reality.
- The third virtue central to the sangang doctrine is jie or chastity (preserving the marital fidelity of the wife or the virginal purity of an unmarried woman).
- He peels the spuds, digs the garden and with a virginal innocence shifts his affections from the daughter to the mother; yet he is also quietly scathing about the journeyman daubs of his fellow lodger.
- The studio hushed it up to preserve her virginal image.
- Both Diana and Jemima married at a young, impressionable age to men who decided their brides ‘fitted the bill’ as virginal sweet young things.
- White pups on white snow are seen as symbols of virginal nature, threatened by a hunter with upraised club.
- Ornamental umbels are represented by the delicately virginal Queen Anne's lace, which can grow to monstrous proportions if supported among other plants in the flower border and makes a surprisingly good cut flower.
- No need to shield your virginal eyes, the nude figures have been laboriously obscured.
- On this occasion relays of patriotic maidens in virginal white paraded reverently before a temple of philosophy erected where the high altar had stood.
- Dressed in virginal white, eight young girls executed endless parans and moved fluidly across the stage in a piece titled Nritta, or pure dance.
- Let's go back to the, like, virginal innocence thing, because that can be cool too.
- Working in a largely male-dominated office, the arrival of any new female face, let alone a young, innocent and possibly virginal one, is greeted with much excitement.
- Hospitals may have a certain erotic frisson, but romance novelists just love an exotic location, preferably some desert land ruled by a dusky tyrant who can give the virginal heroine a rough ride on his camel.
- Reader's warning: this article uses unsavory language and is not recommended for virginal ears.
- I read a large amount of news online, but I still practice an almost ritualistic reading of the physical paper; so much so that I get antsy when some else reads my virginal paper before I get to it.
- She was waiting for him in a bed of an obscenely virginal white lace and satin.
- Her risqué performance during the Onyx Hotel tour proved once and for all that she has successfully made the transition from virginal adolescence to libidinous adulthood, to the consternation of some and joy of others.
Synonyms chaste, celibate, abstinent, self-restrained, self-denying chaste, virgin, celibate, abstinent, self-restrained, self-denying
noun ˈvəːdʒɪn(ə)lˈvərdʒənl usually virginalsAn early spinet with the strings parallel to the keyboard, typically rectangular, and popular in 16th and 17th century houses. 维金纳琴 Example sentencesExamples - The virginals in Vermeer's The Music Lesson are recognizable as instruments created by the firm of Ruckers, and the standard dimensions of their design are used as a cross-check by Steadman for the dimensions of the room as a whole.
- The pieces in Musicks Hand-maide are transcriptions of such music, played here on the virginals.
- Some Flemish ‘mother and child’ virginals were made effectively double-manual by having a small 4 virginals tucked away in a drawer beside the keyboard.
- The Musical Director tried out some tunes on the virginals but none of them was up to much until they came to this one.
- It's a chest of whistles, it's a set of virginals, it's just about anything you want to make of it.
Derivativesnoun In his day he was chiefly famous as an organist and virginalist, being described by one listener as ‘the best finger of that age’. Example sentencesExamples - One of Henry's unhappy wives, Catherine Howard, lost her head because of immorality with the court virginalist before her marriage to the King!
- Melody, harmony, and rhythm became as important to music as plainsong and counterpoint, and the arts of ornamentation and virtuoso extemporization thrived among the virginalists, and among the lute and consort players.
- This helps to explain the change in repertory from the complicated, technically demanding pieces of the virginalists to the simpler, more straightforward works found in many of the later sources.
adverb If some parents choose to pretend to their children that they were virginally conceived, that is, of course, their societally complicit prerogative. Example sentencesExamples - I went for a walk around town (finally) wearing the virginally-new rain jacket I'd brought with me.
- Perseus was not really virginally conceived at all, but was the result of sexual intercourse between the lecherous god Zeus and Danaë. Zeus had previously turned himself into a shower of gold to reach the imprisoned damsel.
- Their sound is virginally pure yet sexy, girlish and yet offering maternal comfort.
- She's not vulgar - it's just that she doesn't do it playfully or girlishly - or virginally.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin virginalis, from virgo 'young woman'. The musical instrument is perhaps so called because it was usually played by young women. Definition of virginal in US English: virginaladjectiveˈvərdʒənlˈvərjənl Being, relating to, or appropriate for a virgin. （关于）处女的；童贞的 处女似的羞怯。 Example sentencesExamples - Working in a largely male-dominated office, the arrival of any new female face, let alone a young, innocent and possibly virginal one, is greeted with much excitement.
- The studio hushed it up to preserve her virginal image.
- She was waiting for him in a bed of an obscenely virginal white lace and satin.
- On this occasion relays of patriotic maidens in virginal white paraded reverently before a temple of philosophy erected where the high altar had stood.
- Reader's warning: this article uses unsavory language and is not recommended for virginal ears.
- The third virtue central to the sangang doctrine is jie or chastity (preserving the marital fidelity of the wife or the virginal purity of an unmarried woman).
- As for me, spinsters have no need for virginal innocence.
- White pups on white snow are seen as symbols of virginal nature, threatened by a hunter with upraised club.
- Let's go back to the, like, virginal innocence thing, because that can be cool too.
- In fact when we first meet her she seems quite virginal.
- Dressed in virginal white, eight young girls executed endless parans and moved fluidly across the stage in a piece titled Nritta, or pure dance.
- In Chaplin's film it is love at first sight and the tramp will do anything he can to help the blind heroine. They both have the innocence of schoolchildren, and theirs is the virginal dream of love, not the reality.
- Hospitals may have a certain erotic frisson, but romance novelists just love an exotic location, preferably some desert land ruled by a dusky tyrant who can give the virginal heroine a rough ride on his camel.
- No need to shield your virginal eyes, the nude figures have been laboriously obscured.
- Her risqué performance during the Onyx Hotel tour proved once and for all that she has successfully made the transition from virginal adolescence to libidinous adulthood, to the consternation of some and joy of others.
- He peels the spuds, digs the garden and with a virginal innocence shifts his affections from the daughter to the mother; yet he is also quietly scathing about the journeyman daubs of his fellow lodger.
- Both Diana and Jemima married at a young, impressionable age to men who decided their brides ‘fitted the bill’ as virginal sweet young things.
- The virginal mind is innocent in the positive sense.
- I read a large amount of news online, but I still practice an almost ritualistic reading of the physical paper; so much so that I get antsy when some else reads my virginal paper before I get to it.
- Ornamental umbels are represented by the delicately virginal Queen Anne's lace, which can grow to monstrous proportions if supported among other plants in the flower border and makes a surprisingly good cut flower.
Synonyms chaste, celibate, abstinent, self-restrained, self-denying chaste, virgin, celibate, abstinent, self-restrained, self-denying
nounˈvərdʒənlˈvərjənl usually virginalsAn early spinet with the strings parallel to the keyboard, typically rectangular, and popular in 16th and 17th century houses. 维金纳琴 Example sentencesExamples - It's a chest of whistles, it's a set of virginals, it's just about anything you want to make of it.
- The Musical Director tried out some tunes on the virginals but none of them was up to much until they came to this one.
- The pieces in Musicks Hand-maide are transcriptions of such music, played here on the virginals.
- Some Flemish ‘mother and child’ virginals were made effectively double-manual by having a small 4 virginals tucked away in a drawer beside the keyboard.
- The virginals in Vermeer's The Music Lesson are recognizable as instruments created by the firm of Ruckers, and the standard dimensions of their design are used as a cross-check by Steadman for the dimensions of the room as a whole.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin virginalis, from virgo ‘young woman’. The musical instrument is perhaps so called because it was usually played by young women. |