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vestal virgin::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | votary |
| Has types | rea silvia, rhea silvia |
Examples of vestal virgin
vestal virgin
If a vestal virgin was found having sexual relations she would be buried alive.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Good luck finding a vestal virgin or a goat at Kiki de Montparnasse or Agent Provocateur.
From the post-gazette.com
James McNeill Whistler's White Girl, a vestal virgin in a mid 19th-century drawing room, stares into the middle distance.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Spontini's opera about a vestal virgin in love was a great influence on Berlioz and a forerunner of French grand opera.
From the en.wikipedia.org
She talks sports and politics to the husbands, bucks up the wives and appears to live as a modern vestal virgin, chastely devoted to good works.
From the usatoday.com
It brims over with energy and colour, Mars's red mantle swelling with erotic fury in response to the folded, yellow robes of the vestal virgin, surprised in her sleep.
From the guardian.co.uk
They are talking about a volume so small that Winnie the Pooh could carry it in his hip pocket, and so unfleshly that a vestal virgin might choose to read it at a church picnic.
From the time.com
A long train of concubines, and a rapid succession of wives, among whom was a vestal virgin, ravished by force from her sacred asylum, were insufficient to satisfy the impotence of his passions.
From the en.wikipedia.org
