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virginal

[vur-juh-nl] / ˈvɜr dʒə nl /




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Set in Rome in 1971 just before the events of the first movie, “The First Omen’s” central figure is Margaret Daino, a dewy, virginal American novitiate played by Nell Tiger Free.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

Who doesn’t love Vermeer’s 1669-70 painting, “The Lacemaker,” with its soft light and aura of beatific, if not virginal concentration?

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

Miss Lansbury endows Sibyl Vane, the songstress with virginal charm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

The bride, dressed in virginal white, approached Bobby and whispered something in his ear that caused him to briefly abandon his station.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2022

Thus is created a virginal society on which the author can wreak whatever literary havoc he chooses.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

Vermeer's the Music Lesson aka A lady at the virginals with a gentleman.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2012

A motley sisterhood of keyboard instruments — virginals, clavichords, harpsichords — squat on platforms and tables.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2010

The royalty checks helped Mr. Hogwood build up an already formidable musical library of historical instruments, including clavichords, spinets, virginals and fortepianos.

From Washington Post

Fired with enthusiasm, he began to collect viols, lutes, virginals and other old instruments, studied their construction and taught himself how to play them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Likewise the keyboard music of sixteenth-century English composers Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and John Redford, which was originally intended to be sung, was soon adapted, by them and others, into music tailor-made for the virginals.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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