pair of virginals

1. 1.

   a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries

   Synonymsvirginal

   Broaderharpsichord

Questions about pair of virginals

What does pair of virginals mean?

pair of virginals means "a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries".

What is another word for pair of virginals?

Close synonyms include virginal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pair of virginals a common word?

pair of virginals is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.