virginal

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Virginal student Abby falls for tattooed bad boy Travis but she's fleeing from her past and he reminds her of it, so how can they ever be together?

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2012

Mr. Weiss was on his own on Sunday afternoon at Corpus Christi Church, when he opened the Music Before 1800 season with “A Cleare Day,” a program of selections from the “Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.”

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2011

The unofficially censored book is Edwin Franden Dakin's Mrs. Eddy: The Biography of a Virginal Mind, published by Scribner's last August, now unobtainable at many a bookstore.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is singular that the Virginal, which was the most popular of all the keyed instruments, is nowhere directly named in Shakespeare.

From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall)

The "knife-board," sacred once to broad male feet, The "Happy Garden Seat," Invaded now by the non-smoking sex, Virginal scruples vex, And matronly anathemas assail.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 by Various