Definitions for Virginal

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Virginal vir·gin·al

Spelling: [vur-juh-nl]

IPA: /ˈvɜr dʒə nl/

Virginal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 208 anagrams from letters in Virginal (agiilnrv).

Definitions for Virginal

noun

1. 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.

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a virgin:
2. continuing in a state of virginity.
3. pure; unsullied; untouched:
4. Zoology. not fertilized.

Origin of Virginal

1400-50; late Middle English Latin virginālis, equivalent to virgin- virgin + -ālis -al¹

Examples for Virginal

There are several explanations as to why the virginal was so called.

And on the page, we finally get to meet the virginal Carrie, literally pre- Sex.

Queen Elizabeth's virginal is still preserved at Worcestershire.

It was an exquisite morning, too virginal for June, too richly warm for May.

She stood gazing at the firelit faces, the virginal half-smile on her lips.

The impression is left that this project would despoil a virginal natural landscape.

She came in a soft, white gown that clung to her virginal figure.

Temple Bells looks and acts sweet and innocent and virginal.

McCarthy wore a virginal white wedding dress for the occasion.

She had a virginal shape, and liked her clothes to cling about her knees.