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- noun Plural form of
maidenhood .
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Examples
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My great-great aunt Constance was, I believe, some kind of erotomaniac, while her two sisters, Trissie and Elsie, carried their maidenhoods with them to their graves -- and I am only counting among the deceased.
Loathed, Lovable and Loopy Alexander Waugh 2007
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Now as her age reached her fourteenth year her sire the Sultan chose for her a palace and settled her therein and placed about her slave-girls, high-bosomed virgins numbering an hundred, and each and every famous for beauty and loveliness; and presently she selected of them a score who were all maidenhoods, illustrious for comeliness and seemliness.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And upon love-hot youth bestowest her chastest of maidenhoods!
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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