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Examples
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He wanted to say something later to Connie about the demi-vierge business ... the half-virgin state of her affairs.
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I sought to collect you, but you avoided such, dancing away like a flirtatious demi-vierge; now, now, you have come to me on your own.
Conan the Fearless Perry, Steve 1986
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Platonic touch: our _demi-vierge_ attitude in matters of the mind, our academic horror of clean thinking.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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Who, even if this little fool were merely demi-vierge, would hesitate between them?
Black Oxen Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Its practical outcome is held to be the "demi-vierge," who knows and has experienced the joys of sex while yet retaining her hymen intact.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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II sera pour vous une vierge, mieux qu'une vierge, il sera pour vous une demi-vierge.
The Lake 1892
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Yet we may doubt whether any of the modern French playwrights could have lent the same curt significance to this commonplace interview between a married _demi-vierge_ and an
Inquiries and Opinions Brander Matthews 1890
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The French type of the demi-vierge is just beginning to play its rôle in the new world.
Psychology and Social Sanity Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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She knew that he didn’t mind whether she were demi-vierge or demi-monde, so long as he didn’t absolutely know, and wasn’t made to see.
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‘I’m afraid it doesn’t quite suit Connie to be a demi-vierge.’
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