单词 | virginal |
释义 | virginal virginal1 —virginally, adv. /verr"jeuh nl/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a virgin: virginal purity. 2. continuing in a state of virginity. 3. pure; unsullied; untouched: a virginal mountain stream. 4. Zool. not fertilized. [1400-50; late ME < L virginalis, equiv. to virgin- VIRGIN + -alis -AL1] virginal2 —virginalist, n. /verr"jeuh nl/, n. Often, virginals. a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard, the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. [1520-30; appar. special use of VIRGINAL1] |
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