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单词 vestal
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vestal /vesˈtəl/

adjective
  1. (often with cap) relating or consecrated to the Roman goddess Vesta
  2. Of or like the vestal virgins
  3. Virgin
  4. Chaste
noun
  1. One of the Roman patrician virgins consecrated to Vesta
  2. A woman dedicated to celibacy, a nun
  3. A virgin
  4. A woman of spotless chastity
ORIGIN: L vestālis, from Vesta

vestal virgin noun (historical)

In ancient Rome, one of the patrician virgins consecrated to Vesta, who kept the sacred fire burning on her altar

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