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vestal
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Definition:of or relating to the goddess Vesta, i.e. chaste, pure or virgin
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"So we live without making anything, as though we were ancient vestals set to keep in a fire."
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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But this grieves me most, that thou art almost vowed to the vain order of the vestal virgins, despising, or at the least not desiring the sacred bands of Juno, her bed.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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