Meaning

(literally, countable) The hymen..

Definitions by Sense

1. (literally, countable) The hymen.
2. (metonymic, uncountable) Virginity.

Example Sentences

Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.

Put in but little Silver or Gold, for if you do, you quite spoil the Compoſition ; but inſtead thereof, add of Tradeſmens Bills for Cloaths, to the Value of 100 l. [¶] Laſtly, Take away the Girl's Maidenhead, and then the Compoſition is fit for Uſe.

Gallants, a bashful poet bids me say, He's come to lose his maidenhead to-day. Be not too fierce; for he's but green of age, And ne'er, till now, debauch'd upon the stage.

My lord,[…]/ I brought you nothing else it may be said / But faith and nakedness and maidenhead.

She prayed to Pallas, and by her help escaped from him in the form of a crow, rejoicing more to keep her maidenhead white under the blackness of the feathers than to lose it and be adorned with the fairest pearls.

So the reference to the plucking of the ginger flower is again an indirect allusion to the taking of the girl's maidenhead .

The gender reversals that pervade this play continue mischievously in the man's maidenhead being the undisclosed secret.

“[…] He said that Katheryn told him he should have her maidenhead, though it be painful to her. I told him to be gone with his empty promises of marriage. But I doubt not that Mr. Mannox has known her intimately.”

Word Forms

• maidenheads
• maydenhead

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Use maidenhead when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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