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Defloration

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    the act of deflowering countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse) wordnet
  3. 3
    an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something wordnet

Etymology

From Old French desfloracion (French défloration), from Latin defloratio.

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