demi-vierge
[ dem-ee-vee-airzh; French duh-mee-vyerzh ]
/ ˌdɛm i viˈɛərʒ; French də miˈvyɛrʒ /
noun, plural de·mi-vierges [dem-ee-vee-air-zhiz; French duh-mee-vyerzh] /ˌdɛm i viˈɛər ʒɪz; French də miˈvyɛrʒ/.
a girl or woman who behaves in a sexually provocative and permissive way without yielding her virginity.
Also called
dem·i-vir·gin
[dem-ee-vur-jin, dem-ee-vur-] /ˌdɛm iˈvɜr dʒɪn, ˈdɛm iˌvɜr-/.
Origin of demi-vierge
< French: literally, half-virgin; after
Les demi-vierges (1894), a novel by French writer Marcel Prévost (1862–1940)
Words nearby demi-vierge
demi-hunter,
demi-pension,
demi-plié,
demi-pointe,
demi-sec,
demi-vierge,
demibastion,
demicanton,
demigauntlet bandage,
demigod,
demigoddess
Example sentences from the Web for demi-vierge
The French type of the demi-vierge is just beginning to play its rôle in the new world.
Psychology and Social Sanity |Hugo Mnsterberg