Hypertext Webster Gateway: "maidenhead"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maidenhead \Maid"en*head\, n. [See {Maidenhood}.]
1. The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
--Shak.
2. The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness;
purity. [Obs.]
The maidenhead of their credit. --Sir H.
Wotton.
3. The hymen, or virginal membrane.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
maidenhead
n : a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the
vagina of a virgin [syn: {hymen}, {virginal membrane}]
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