I. noun
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a maiden flight (= the first flight of an aircraft )
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The plane’s maiden flight is scheduled for November.
maiden aunt
maiden name
maiden voyage (= first journey )
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the Titanic’s maiden voyage
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also patron of eloquence, maidens, preachers, single women, spinners, and students.
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And some, Perdita added, were cut out to be professional maidens.
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But we are not told that Polyphemus ever loved any maiden except Galatea, or that any maiden ever loved Polyphemus.
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He won a maiden , a nursery and a conditions race earlier in the season and was most impressive.
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Heartbroken maidens were nothing to him.
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She can no longer see the water maiden .
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She identifies this figure as an aspect of the Goddess - water maiden .
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
aunt
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When he was eighteen months old, the family broke up, his care passing to a maiden aunt .
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Shorting is not for maiden aunts .
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The maiden aunt who was invited to Walsingham House arrived in a four-wheeler.
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The man of letters and the maiden aunt .
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Your aupair may be a born maiden aunt .
flight
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With barely a week to go before the maiden flight , Paul's report made alarming reading.
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I missed the maiden flight at Kitty Hawk and managed to be absent when Alan Dershowitz invented the appeal process.
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The maiden flight of the A-12 had been scheduled for November 1991, with a view to the aircraft becoming operational in the mid-1990s.
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The company said the first aircraft had experienced no problems during its 18-minute maiden flight .
name
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And I see no point in reverting to my maiden name since that belonged to my father.
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Callahan is her maiden name as a matter of fact.
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For a long time she maintained her maiden name until it became a public and political necessity to adopt the surname Clinton.
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Or is Jones your maiden name ?
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Many women choose to work under their maiden names .
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For example, they recently voted to strike down an act that would have allowed married women to keep their maiden names .
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Her maiden name was Wyatt, but now she's called Hughes.
speech
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Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President; no-one notices - they're all asleep too.
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One of the startling omissions from the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Langbaurgh was any mention of Teesside development corporation.
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I was making my maiden speech , which is traditionally a somewhat nerve-wracking experience.
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But for a maiden speech , by tradition, everyone keeps absolutely silent and no one is allowed to interrupt.
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Or to congratulate me on my maiden speech ?
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She told him that it was her intention to make her maiden speech at the conference.
voyage
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As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.
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Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage .
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Fifty-two years before I met him, Lawrence Beesley had been a second-class passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The new prime minister admitted that her maiden speech had been too long.
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The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
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Two jets crashed on their maiden flights last year.
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A maiden century against Northants at Edgbaston and his county cap soon followed.
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As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.
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But for a maiden speech, by tradition, everyone keeps absolutely silent and no one is allowed to interrupt.
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Fishwick - four maiden heifers £1575.
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I was making my maiden speech, which is traditionally a somewhat nerve-wracking experience.
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Or is Jones your maiden name?
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The maiden aunt who was invited to Walsingham House arrived in a four-wheeler.