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maidenhead
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Maidenhead, city (1991 pop. 59,809), Windsor and Maidenhead, S central England, on the Thames River. It is a residential town with brewing and milling industries as well as a resort. The 13th-century stone bridge was rebuilt in the 1770s.
Maidenhead
a town in S England, in Windsor and Maidenhead unitary authority, Berkshire, on the River Thames. Pop.: 58 848 (2001)

maidenhead [′mād·ən‚hed]
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Mary Bly's essay focuses more narrowly on bawdy puns spo ken by virgins about their own maidenheads, a culturally transgressive practice that she sees Shakespeare pioneering--daringly yet quite successfully--with Juliet but which is later parodied for comic effect in plays by Henry Porter and Thomas Dekker.
 
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