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Virdee
Virdee is a 2025 six-part BBC One British crime drama set in Bradford, adapted by A. A. Dhand from his novel City of Sinners. Staz Nair stars as DI Harry Virdee; the BBC cancelled it in February 2026 after averaging 3.3 million viewers.
Virelai
The virelai is a medieval French poetic and musical form built on a recurring refrain, used chiefly in the 14th century and favored by Guillaume de Machaut.
Virgil
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro; Italian: Publio Virgilio Marone; 70–19 BCE), Roman poet of the Augustan period, author of the ten Eclogues, the four-book Georgics, and the unfinished twelve-book Aeneid, published after his death at Brundisium.
Virgil Abloh
Virgil Abloh (1980–2021), American designer, architect, and DJ; founder of Off-White (2013) and Louis Vuitton's first Black menswear artistic director (2018); died of cardiac angiosarcoma at 41.
Virgilian epic
Virgilian epic is the tradition of Latin narrative epic founded on Virgil's Aeneid, embracing later ancient and post-classical epics measured against that poem through imitation, inversion, or revision.
Virgilio Almario
Virgilio Almario, also known as Rio Alma, is a Filipino poet, critic, and translator who was named National Artist for Literature of the Philippines in 2003.
Virgilio Piñera
Virgilio Piñera (1912–1979) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright, born in Cárdenas, regarded as a pioneer of absurdist literature in Cuba and Spanish America.
Virgilio Rodríguez Macal
Virgilio Rodríguez Macal (1916–1964) was a Guatemalan writer, journalist, and diplomat known for criollista novels set in the Petén jungle, including La mansión del pájaro serpiente.
Virgin (Lorde album)
Virgin (2025) is the fourth studio album by New Zealand singer Lorde, released June 27, 2025 via Universal Music New Zealand. Produced mainly with Jim-E Stack, it returns to electronic pop after Solar Power, with an X-ray pelvis cover and themes of gender, body, and heartbreak.
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
A sixth- or seventh-century Byzantine encaustic icon of the enthroned Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Theodore and George, preserved at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.
Virgin Bhasskar
Virgin Bhasskar (वर्जिन भास्कर), also written Virgin Bhaskar, is a Hindi adult-comedy web series on ALTBalaji and ZEE5 about Varanasi erotica writer Bhaskar Tripathi, a 26-year-old virgin; two seasons, 2019–2020, starring Anant Joshi.
Virgin Bhasskar 2
Virgin Bhasskar 2 is the 2020 second season of the Hindi ALTBalaji/ZEE5 erotic comedy web series Virgin Bhasskar, starring Anant Joshi, Rutpanna Aishwarya, and Jiya Shankar in a 12-episode love triangle.
Virgin boy egg
Virgin boy egg (童子蛋, tongzi dan) is a Dongyang, Zhejiang springtime dish of eggs boiled in the urine of boys under ten; listed as Dongyang municipal intangible cultural heritage in 2008, with disputed health claims.
Virgin Island (TV series)
Virgin Island is a Channel 4 British reality series, also called Virgin Island (UK), produced by Double Act Productions: 12 adult virgins attend a two-week Mediterranean intimacy retreat with sexologists, premiering 12 May 2025 and winning a 2026 Broadcast Award.
Virgin Killer
Virgin Killer is the fourth studio album by German hard rock band Scorpions, released October 9, 1976 on RCA. Known for its banned nude-child cover art, Dieter Dierks production, Uli Jon Roth songwriting, and being the band's first Gold album in Japan.
Virgin Media Sport
Virgin Media Sport is an Irish pay television sports channel launched in September 2018 by Virgin Media Television, broadcasting UEFA Champions League, Europa League, and League of Ireland football.
Virgin New Adventures
Virgin New Adventures (VNAs): original Doctor Who novels published by Virgin Books, 1991-1999, continuing the Seventh Doctor after Survival; known for Bernice Summerfield, the Cartmel Masterplan, and a more adult tone.
Virgin of Chiquinquirá
The Virgin of Chiquinquirá (Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá) is a 16th-century painting of the Virgin of the Rosary in Chiquinquirá, Colombia, its patroness.
Virgin of Copacabana
The Virgin of Copacabana (Virgen de la Candelaria de Copacabana) is a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary carved in 1583 by Francisco Tito Yupanqui, honored as the patroness of Bolivia.
Virgin of Coromoto
Our Lady of Coromoto (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Coromoto) is the patroness of Venezuela, a Marian devotion from a reported 1652 apparition to Chief Coromoto of the Cospes near Guanare.
Virgin of Luján
The Virgin of Luján (Virgen de Luján) is a small clay statue of Mary venerated in Argentina, its patroness since 1930, enshrined in the Basilica of Luján.
Virgin of Quito
The Virgin of Quito (Virgen de Quito), also called the Winged Virgin, is a 1734 sculpture of the Immaculate Conception by Quito School sculptor Bernardo de Legarda in Ecuador.
Virgin of Suyapa
The Virgin of Suyapa (Nuestra Señora de Suyapa) is a small wooden statue of the Virgin Mary, patroness of Honduras, venerated in Tegucigalpa since 1747.
Virgin of the Rocks
Virgin of the Rocks, also Madonna of the Rocks: two Leonardo da Vinci paintings of Mary, Christ, John the Baptist and an angel in a grotto; Louvre version c. 1483–86, London NG1093 version 1491/2–1508 from a disputed Milan altarpiece commission.
Virgin Punk
Virgin Punk (ヴァージン・パンク) is an original anime series by director Yasuomi Umetsu and studio Shaft; its 35-minute first installment Clockwork Girl opened June 27, 2025, a 2099 bounty-hunter cyberpunk story of Ubu Kamigori and Mr. Elegance.
Virgin Records
Virgin Records, British record label founded in 1972 by Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and Tom Newman; first release Tubular Bells (1973), signed the Sex Pistols, sold to Thorn EMI in 1992, now under Universal Music Group.
Virgin River (TV series)
Virgin River is a Netflix romance drama series adapted from Robyn Carr's Harlequin novels, starring Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson, set in fictional Northern California but filmed in British Columbia, running since December 2019 through a renewed Season 8.
Virgin Soil
Virgin Soil (Новь, Nov), published in 1877, is the last novel by Ivan Turgenev, a social novel about the Russian Populist movement and young radicals who "went to the people".
Virgin Soil Upturned
Virgin Soil Upturned (Поднятая целина, also translated Harvest on the Don) is a two-book novel by Mikhail Sholokhov about collectivization on the Don, published 1932 and 1959 and awarded the Lenin Prize in 1960.
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (오! 수정)
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (오! 수정, Oh! Soo-jung) is Hong Sang-soo's 2000 black-and-white Korean romantic comedy, his third feature, told in five chapters from contradictory viewpoints of a love triangle, screened at Cannes Un Certain Regard 2000.