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maidenhead
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maid·en·head (mdn-hd)
n.
1. The condition or quality of being a maiden; virginity.
2. The hymen.
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Mary Bly's essay focuses more narrowly on bawdy puns spo ken by virgins about their own maidenheads, a culturally transgressive practice that she sees Shakespeare pioneering--daringly yet quite successfully--with Juliet but which is later parodied for comic effect in plays by Henry Porter and Thomas Dekker.
Shakespeare and Sexuality. by Haslem, Lori Schroeder / Renaissance Quarterly
Hal responds, "Why then, it is like if there come a hot June, and this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds" (57-59).
"Crack'd crowns" and counterfeit sovereigns: the crisis of value in 1 ... by Lander, Jesse M. / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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