Virginal

['vɜːdʒɪn(ə)l] or ['vɝdʒɪnl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(adj.) untouched or undefiled; 'nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage'- L.P.Smith .

(adj.) characteristic of a virgin or virginity; 'virginal white dresses' .

手打:内蒂--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.

(n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.

(v. i.) To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.

錄入:特伦特

解釋/意思:

n. an old keyed musical instrument oblong in shape one of the three forms of the harpsichord.—v.i. (Shak.) to finger as on a virginal.

錄入:威廉姆斯