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- noun Plural form of
maidenhead .
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Examples
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Though it be against Hippocrates 'oath, some of them will give a dram, promise to restore maidenheads, and do it without danger, make an abortion if need be, keep down their paps, hinder conception, procure lust, make them able with Satyrions, and now and then step in themselves.
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As for the thirty-two thousand maidenheads, I wish him joy of them.
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The pagan Gods thought highly of maidenheads, they often took them and always, they set aside the virgins for themselves.
Satyricon 2007
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There are some reasons for this passion of mankind for maidenheads.
Satyricon 2007
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Hercules took the maidenheads of fifty girls, in a single night.
Satyricon 2007
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Two maidenheads meeting together in wedlock, the first child must be a fool, is their common aphorism.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Mean while, by the glimpse I stole of him, I could easily discover a person far from promising any such doughty performances as the storming of maidenheads generally requires, and whose flimsy consumptive texture gave him more the air of an invalid that was pressed, than of a volunteer, on such hot service.
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Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.
Romeo and Juliet 2004
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Why, then, it is like, if there come a hot June and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds.
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There are some reasons for this passion of mankind for maidenheads.
The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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