Definitions for vestal virgin
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ves′tal vir′gin(n.)
(in ancient Rome) any of the women, pledged to remain virgins, who tended the sacred fire in Vesta's sanctuary.
Category: Mythology
Origin of vestal virgin:
1400–50
Princeton's WordNet
vestal virgin(noun)
(Roman mythology) one of the virgin priestesses consecrated to the Roman goddess Vesta and to maintaining the sacred fire in her temple
Wiktionary
vestal virgin(Noun)
a virgin dedicated to the service of the goddess Vesta
vestal virgin(Noun)
a chaste woman
Origin: Latin; virgines Vestales referred to the priestesses in charge of the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta in Rome
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