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Vestals

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Vestals
six pure girls; tended fire sacred to Vesta. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1127]
See : Virginity

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So we live without making anything, as though we were ancient vestals set to keep in a fire.
She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been a beauty in her day, she said.
 
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