purity balls
purity balls is the plural of purity ball.
Meaning of purity ball
Noun
purity ball (plural purity balls)
- A formal dance event attended by fathers and their teenage daughters to promote virginity until marriage; mostly among conservative Christian groups in the United States.
- Despite all the coverage of the Wilson family and their balls’ dramatic imagery — the girls doing ballet, placing roses before a cross, ballroom-dancing with their dads — there is little hard evidence that purity balls have spread much beyond Colorado Springs.2012 July 21, Mark Oppenheimer, “‘Purity Balls’ Get Attention, but Might Not Be All They Claim”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020
Questions about purity balls
- What is purity balls the plural of?
- Purity balls is the plural of purity ball.
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