virginal in English
virginal shyness
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.
Use "virginal" in a sentence
1. Virginal Vera, besotted with phonetics.
2. Not having experienced sexual intercourse; virginal.
3. Chaste: Not having experienced sexual intercourse; virginal
4. Parthenogenesis, or something, though neither of us was exactly virginal.
5. Perhaps blue eyelashes are this allusive sign , virginal behavior this fragile allusion.
6. John G. is a shy, virginal youth who still shares a room with his widowed father.
7. But now it was everywhere, clamouring at her, shouting down the years of her virginal marriage.
8. With those five words, Lili managed simultaneously to convey exhaustion, indomitable, spirited arrogance, and shocked, virginal modesty.
9. The ottavino could be removed and placed on top of the virginal, making, in effect, a double manual instrument.
10. The Parents of Asclepius Apollo (the brother of the virginal goddess Artemis) was no more chaste than any of the other (male) gods.
11. This event known as virginal parthenogenesis, relates to seasonal factors that damage the cortical layer of the ovocyte and may be mimicked as well by natural -as it happens in Aphidians, bees, wasps, rotipherians, turkeys and rabbits--or experimental environmental agents.
12. (either specifically virginal, or in a modest, unsexy and unrisque manner) 1808 Allan Ramsay - The gentle shepher Let lasses of a silly mind / Refuse what maist they're wanting / Since we for yielding were designed / We Chastely should be granting.
13. Some common synonyms of Chaste are decent, modest, and pure. While all these words mean "free from all taint of what is lewd or salacious," Chaste primarily implies a refraining from acts or even thoughts or desires that are not virginal or not sanctioned by marriage vows