English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Virginal
(a.)
Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin;
maidenly.
Virginal
(n.)
An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having
a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but
only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth
century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of
virginals.
Virginal
(v. i.)
To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap
or pat.