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hymen🔊

(anatomy) A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females.

📑 Synonyms: maidenhead virginal membrane

(figurative) Marriage.

💬 Quotations
Fanny read to herself that "it was with infinite concern the newspaper had to announce to the world, a matrimonial fracas in the family of Mr. R. of Wimpole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R. whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in the fashionable world, having quitted her husband's roof in company with the well known and captivating Mr. C. the intimate friend and associate of Mr. R. and it was not known, even to the editor of the newspaper, whither they were gone."
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