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  • He wanted to say something later to Connie about the demi-vierge business ... the half-virgin state of her affairs.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • 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

  • Platonic touch: our _demi-vierge_ attitude in matters of the mind, our academic horror of clean thinking.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • Who, even if this little fool were merely demi-vierge, would hesitate between them?

    Black Oxen Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • 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

  • II sera pour vous une vierge, mieux qu'une vierge, il sera pour vous une demi-vierge.

    The Lake 1892

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • ‘I’m afraid it doesn’t quite suit Connie to be a demi-vierge.’

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

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