virginal
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Someone with the virginal purity of a political outsider and the intrinsic capability of an insider who’s spent decades cutting deals and keeping the government wheels spinning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026
Sister Megan is a virginal bride of Christ, and a journalist with a morbid fascination with serial killers and crime scenes.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
Set in Rome in 1971 just before the events of the first movie, “The First Omen’s” central figure is Margaret Daino, a dewy, virginal American novitiate played by Nell Tiger Free.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Outside the church, Byrd wrote florid music for the virginal, and pioneered the consort song, a precursor to the lute song.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
Thus is created a virginal society on which the author can wreak whatever literary havoc he chooses.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
Vermeer's the Music Lesson aka A lady at the virginals with a gentleman.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2012
A motley sisterhood of keyboard instruments — virginals, clavichords, harpsichords — squat on platforms and tables.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2010
The royalty checks helped Mr. Hogwood build up an already formidable musical library of historical instruments, including clavichords, spinets, virginals and fortepianos.
From Washington Post
Fired with enthusiasm, he began to collect viols, lutes, virginals and other old instruments, studied their construction and taught himself how to play them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Likewise the keyboard music of sixteenth-century English composers Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and John Redford, which was originally intended to be sung, was soon adapted, by them and others, into music tailor-made for the virginals.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
