maidenhead

maidenhead
    n 1: a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the
         vagina of a virgin [syn: {hymen}, {maidenhead}, {virginal
         membrane}]
    

Maidenhead \Maid"en*head\, n. [See {Maidenhood}.]
   1. The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
      --Shak.
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   2. The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness;
      purity. [Obs.]
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            The maidenhead of their credit.       --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.
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   3. The hymen, or virginal membrane.
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50 Moby Thesaurus words for "maidenhead":
      Platonic love, abstinence, allantoic membrane, amnion,
      amniotic sac, arachnoid membrane, bachelordom, bachelorhood,
      bachelorism, bachelorship, basement membrane, boyhood, celibacy,
      cherry, childhood, conjuctiva, continence, continency, eardrum,
      girlhood, hymen, intactness, maidenhood, membrana serosa,
      membrana tympana, membrane, meninges, meninx, misogamy, misogyny,
      monachism, monasticism, neurilemma, pellicle, pericardium,
      perineurium, pleura, pre-teens, serosa, single blessedness,
      single state, singleness, spinsterhood, subteens,
      tympanic membrane, tympanum, unwed state, velum, virgin state,
      virginity