maidenhead
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈmeɪdənˌhɛd/
- Archaic
:
himen
- The lawyer was boasting that the girl was a virgin and that he'd bought her maidenhead from the mother.
And she wonders, after it's all over, will someone walking on the same path notice domain Hubert Lach, where my Maidenhead lay.
- And she wonders, after it's all over, will someone walking on the same path notice domain Hubert Lach, where my Maidenhead lay.
Examples
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A world never yields its maidenhead twice.
Fiction book (1996) -
Because blood stains are often associated with menstruation and loss of maidenhead, the blood on the key is a reminder to the marquis of the mother's difference from the father.
Academic text (1995) -
Now, by my maidenhead at 12 years old, I bade her come.
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In exchange for my maidenhead, which I brought with me and cannot take away, give me a smock.
Fiction book (1994) -
"Thou know'st that this cannot be said "A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead
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Thou know'st that this cannot be said a sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead.
Academic text (2011) -
Is your maidenhead intact?
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♪ "Alas," she sighed, ♪ "I've lost my maidenhead."
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Her experiences at Mrs. Brown's can be seen as flirting with corruption, but the preservation of her maidenhead is a powerful symbol of the fact that her innocence has not yet been irrevocably lost.
Academic text (1994) -
The ancient text discussed the significance of a woman's maidenhead before marriage.
Synonyms
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8.8
A thin piece of skin that partly covers the opening of the vagina
A thin fold of skin that partly covers the entrance to the vagina and is present at birth
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Maidenhead comes from maiden meaning 'young woman' and head meaning 'state' or 'condition'. So maidenhead was used to mean the state of being a virgin, often referring to the hymen, and the word is now mostly old-fashioned.