Maiden
An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
A female servant.
An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
A machine for washing linen.
Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.
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Maiden Quotations
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot
King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
Joan of Arc
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Miguel de Cervantes
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
David Herbert Lawrence
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Daisy Berkowitz
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Mason Cooley
I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
Cameron Diaz
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
John Henrik Clarke
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
Paula Poundstone
Maiden Translations
maiden in French is virginal
maiden in Italian is vergine
maiden in Latin is virgo
maiden in Spanish is doncella
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