deflowering, depriving of virginity:
(
1361
)
car par lesdictes guerres sont maintes foiz avenues [...] destructions de corps et peril de ames, defloracions de pucelles et de vierges, deshonestations de femes mariés et vefves, arsures de villes, de manoirs et edifices, [...]
Lett Rois 137
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