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Subject: RE: Great Free Software!
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:50:56 -0600
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> From: Dare @ Work
>
> maid�en   Pronunciation Key  (mdn)
> n.
>
> An unmarried girl or woman.
> A virgin.
> A machine resembling the guillotine, used in Scotland in the 16th and 17th
> centuries to behead criminals.
> Sports.
> A racehorse that has never won a race.
> A maiden over.

Dare, in modern American English, "maiden" is used far more often to mean
"first" than its older definition of "virgin".  The older definition has
fallen out of use here.

Joe

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