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Virginal meaning
Being or resembling a virgin. | Uncontaminated or pure. | Parthenogenic.
Synonyms of Virginal
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Being alkaline, the semen neutralises virginal activities.
Not forgetting, of course, the central romance between super-stud Rupert, a former Olympic show jumper and Tory MP, and sweet Taggie O’Hara, who is kind, virginal, dyslexic and just 18 years old.
Hear the name Emily Dickinson, and you’ll probably think of the virginal woman in white, the reclusive Belle of Amherst who died with her “letter to the world” — as she wrote in one of her enigmatic poems — unsent.
Many of the characters delivered comedic lines or songs, such as the number sung by Daniel Belcher, playing Fredrick Egerman, about how he wants his virginal wife to sleep with him after eleven months of marriage.
Does not bear inspection." citation As this review states, the virginal maiden character is above inspection because her personality is flawless.
Elements of Gothic fiction * Virginal maiden – young, beautiful, pure, innocent, kind, virtuous and sensitive.
Even after Vermeer’s supposed financial breakdown following the so-called rampjaar (year of disaster) in 1672, he continued to employ natural ultramarine generously, such as in Lady Seated at a Virginal.
Iconography Since the Middle Ages, Agnes has traditionally been depicted as a young girl in robes, with a lamb, the symbol of her virginal innocence, citation and often, like many other martyrs, with a palm branch.
In Lady standing at a virginal, the young woman's dress is painted with a mixture of ultramarine and green earth, and ultramarine was also used to add shadows in the flesh tones.
Jan Vermeer 's famous painting A Lady Standing at a Virginal shows a characteristic practice of his time, with the instrument mounted on a table and the player standing.
Kerenyi's study and theory of Athena accredits her virginal epithet to be a result of the relationship to her father Zeus and a vital, cohesive piece of her character throughout the ages.
Polyphonte Polyphonte was a young woman who fled home preferring the idea of a virginal life with Artemis to the conventional life of marriage and children favoured by Aphrodite.
Romeo and Juliet was parodied in Shakespeare's own lifetime: Henry Porter 's Two Angry Women of Abingdon (1598) and Thomas Dekker 's Blurt, Master Constable (1607) both contain balcony scenes in which a virginal heroine engages in bawdy wordplay.
She disguises herself in virginal white robes and a veil (much like Philia's) to try to catch Senex being unfaithful.
The book is a historical horror novel about a perfumer 's apprentice born with no body odor of his own but with a highly developed sense of smell, and who attempts to create the "ultimate perfume" by killing virginal women and taking their scent.
The ottavino could be removed and placed on top of the virginal, making in effect a double manual instrument.
The same year she appeared in the Academy-Award winning Belle Epoque as the virginal Luz.
Virginals main The virginal is a smaller and simpler rectangular form of the harpsichord having only one string per note; the strings run parallel to the keyboard, which is on the long side of the case.