vestal
- Adjective. Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.
- Adjective. Pure; chaste.
- 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.
- Noun. A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations.
- Noun. A nun.
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