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

"The Colonnade," and "The Lady playing the Virginal," had seemed to her symbols of the different lives which that day had been pressed upon her choice.

From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Virginal, vėr′jin-al, n. an old keyed musical instrument, oblong in shape, one of the three forms of the harpsichord.—v.i.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various