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French
Etymology
From demi- + vierge.
Pronunciation
Noun
demi-vierge f (plural demi-vierges)
- libertine virgin, half-virgin
1894, Marcel Prévost, Les Demi-vierges:Pour les jeunes filles françaises, l’injustice serait d’autant plus forte que la demi-vierge est un type bien plus répandu à l’étranger qu’en France: je ne serais même pas surpris qu’elle fût chez nous une importation. Le flirt est "Anglo-Saxon", et l’on aura beau enguirlander le mot de toute l’innocence et de toute la poésie qu’on voudra, nous avons la vérité sur le flirt. Nulle part moins qu’en France il n’y a de demi-vierges.- For young French girls, the injustice would be all the greater since the half-virgin is a type much more widespread abroad than in France: I would not even be surprised if it were an import here. Flirting is "Anglo-Saxon," and garlanding the word with all the innocence and poetry in the world cannot disguise the truth about flirting. Nowhere less than in France are there such libertine virgins.
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