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Meaning of desflorada



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1º_ Feminine of deflowered ("without the brilliance, grace or virtue that it possessed"). 2º_ Thus in the feminine it is used as a synonym for devirgada for a woman who loses her virginity, especially referring to the rupture of the hymen during the first sexual intercourse. The concept of flower as something positive, pure, the best and visible of something or someone, already existed in ancient Rome where for obvious reasons it was associated with the value of the woman who arrives at marriage a virgin. From there, the verb deflorare was created to "remove the purity" of a young woman, who through her participle generated this adjective in Spanish.

  










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