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maiden

A maiden is a female human whose hymen ("cherry") is intact and unbroken. Jill was a maiden when she met John. The maidens danced on the village green.

maiden

(= maid) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) (= maiden over) (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored (= inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first) serving to set in motion the magazine's inaugural issue the initiative phase in the negotiations an initiatory step toward a treaty his first (or maiden) speech in Congress the liner's maiden voyage

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The Titanic sunk on its maiden voyage.
The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage. She was a large ship.
The Titanic's maiden voyage didn't go so well.
What is your maiden name?
Near such high virtue, every maiden fear takes wing at once.
Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.
What's your mother's maiden name?
What's Mary's maiden name?
The love of a young maiden is a poem. The love of an old maid is philosophy.
Mary went back to using her maiden name.
What's your wife's maiden name?
This is our ship's maiden voyage.
Again the frog turned into Vasilissa, the wise maiden.
Jackson is Tom's mother's maiden name.
What's your maiden name?

Movie subtitles

Suffice to say it's not a perfume anybody's maiden aunt would wear.
They had come to collect the young maiden who had loved an evildoer. and had given her life to destroy him.
A hundred years! At the seeds the maiden stares Her heart full of sorrow.
The Baron von Chanterelle does not wish for his lineage to die out and therefore invites all of the region's maidens to gather in the marketplace so that his nephew, the sole heir, may choose a fitting maiden to take as his wife.
And so they fetch you too, young maiden, giving you their unfailing test.
Deliverance is possible by no other means, but that an innocent maiden maketh the vampyre heed not the first crowing of the cock, this done by the sacrifice of her own bloode.
He has set his heart on a bold and mighty maiden.
Why does the maiden cry?
You Rhine maiden!
Oh, Isis! Holy Maiden!
If it isn't Little Lord Fauntleroy and the village maiden.
A deaf and dumb maiden.
But, maiden, why so shy?
Don't cry, maiden.
The radio was going and I was on my way to play bridge with my three maiden aunts.
A maiden!
I see you as a maiden.
Two Maiden's Prayer!
Especially if you're a maiden aunt teaching a Chinese nurse things you don't know about.
Here is the song of the Maiden and the Apple Tree.
A Maiden sat in an apple tree high. A lad chanced to pass by.
My real name, my maiden name, is Claire.
Say, do you remember the maiden name of your grandmother?
A guy that can't remember the maiden name of his grandmother.
They believe that the hands of a human beast will smoke when he slays a victim, and that this will cause the beast shame when a young maiden takes up residence in his home.
But Doctor, I'm a real maiden.
I'm a maiden.
A maiden lady.
Like a young maiden, just awaking from a long sleep.
Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress.
But one maiden was untrue to her lover.
The children and I are taking my maiden name.
My maiden name was Sandra Marshall.
And, by royal command, every eligible maiden is to attend.

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