what does vestal mean?
VESTAL as NOUN
- Meaning
Hypernyms(s) vestal is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
VESTAL as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- in a state of sexual virginity
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- pure and vestal modesty
- a spinster or virgin lady
- men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal
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