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Webster 1913 Edition
Maidenhead
1.
The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
Shak.
2.
The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.
[Obs.]
The
maidenhead
of their credit. Sir H. Wotton.
3.
The hymen, or virginal membrane.
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English
Noun
maidenhead (countable and uncountable, plural maidenheads)
- (uncountable) Virginity.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p. 363:
- My lord, [...] / I brought you nothing else it may be said / But faith and nakedness and maidenhead.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
- Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p. 363:
- (anatomy) The hymen.
Synonyms
- (virginity) maidhood, maidenhood
Related terms
Translations
virginity
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