The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defloration \Def`lo*ra"tion\, n. [LL. defloratio: cf. F. d['e]floration.]
The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.
--Johnson.-
That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection. [R.]
The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws.
--Sir M. Hale.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "culling of the finest passages from books," from Old French desfloracion (14c.), from Latin deflorationem "plucking of flowers," also "taking of (a woman's) virginity," noun of action from past participle stem of deflorare (see deflower). Compare also anthology. Also used in Middle English with reference to virginity from c.1400.\n
Wiktionary
n. the act of deflowering
WordNet
n. an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something
the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)
Usage examples of "defloration".
More exactly, once the alarm of her defloration and her fear of being killed in the morning began to pass, she found abhorrent not Shahryar himself -- undeniably a vigorous and handsome man for his forty years, and a skillful lover -- but his murderous record with our sex, which no amount of charm and tender caressing could expunge.
Using, like Scheherazade herself, for entirely present ends, materials received from narrative antiquity and methods older than the alphabet, in the time since Sherry's defloration he had set down two-thirds of a projected series of three novellas, longish tales which would take their sense from one another in several of the ways he and Sherry had discussed, and, if they were successful (here he smiled at me), manage to be seriously, even passionately, about some things as well.
I'd asked Danaë one last time -- for she'd admitted an early defloration by Proetus, Acrisius's twin.
Watching them glitter and shine reminded Bill of the happy Fundamentalist Zoroastrian Winter Solstice Defloration Festival, that the nonbelievers called Christmas, back home.
When not used for contests, the Black Theater, as the locals called it, staged ballets, music festivals, defloration ceremonies and other priestly fund raisers for the local gods.
He then married a beefy slave called Zoticus, and the ceremony was followed by a ritual defloration and honeymoon.
De Sade printed this discourse in a book called Philosophy in the Bedroom, which is about the defloration and corruption of a virgin.