vestal

  1. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.
  2. Adjective.  Pure; chaste.
  3. Noun.  A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
  4. Noun.  A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations.
  5. Noun.  A nun.

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