adj.
relating to or appropriate for a virgin.
n.
an early spinet with the strings parallel to the keyboard, popular in 16th- and 17th-century houses.
Derivative
- virginalist n.
- virginally adv.
Etymology
ME: from OFr., or from L. virginalis, from virgo ‘young woman’; the instrument was perh. so called because it was usually played by young women.
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