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as in pristine
being in an original and unused or unspoiled state
one of the state's few remaining tracts of virginal prairie
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as in pure
free from any trace of the coarse or indecent
the romance between the young boy and girl is portrayed with virginal innocence that is touching in this day and age
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Wealthy Upper East Sider step-siblings Kathryn Merteuil (Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Phillippe, now 49) are among Annette's classmates, and the two make a bet that Sebastian can't seduce the virginal new student.
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Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
In a video for the song, the group in virginal white cotton dresses walk barefoot in an agricultural field outside a wooden cottage.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
Even further north — on the country’s uppermost peninsula closest to Nicaragua (an hour from LIR airport) — is Costa Elena, a new eco-luxury community and ocean club with 10 miles of virginal coastline, renowned for kite-surfing and snorkeling.
—Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023
Morgan’s Tony Soprano finally showed up in Season 4, in the form of Lady Diana Spencer—the virginal blueblood, twelve years Prince Charles’s junior, to whom fell the unenviable fate of becoming the Princess of Wales.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2023
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Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
In a video for the song, the group in virginal white cotton dresses walk barefoot in an agricultural field outside a wooden cottage.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2023
Even further north — on the country’s uppermost peninsula closest to Nicaragua (an hour from LIR airport) — is Costa Elena, a new eco-luxury community and ocean club with 10 miles of virginal coastline, renowned for kite-surfing and snorkeling.
—Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023
Morgan’s Tony Soprano finally showed up in Season 4, in the form of Lady Diana Spencer—the virginal blueblood, twelve years Prince Charles’s junior, to whom fell the unenviable fate of becoming the Princess of Wales.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2023
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“Virginal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virginal. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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