Meaning & use
maidenhead
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A woman's virginity, or, more specifically, the hymen traditionally regarded as physical evidence of it.
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In the old ballad, the knight vows to protect the maiden's maidenhead until marriage.
The term maidenhead appears frequently in Renaissance poetry as a symbol of purity.
A note on using this word
Though Maidenhead is also the name of an English town, the common noun is an older, literary word rarely used in modern speech.
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