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Moralist's wordy joke about a girl (7)

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puritan

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(Other definitions for puritan that I've seen before include "One forgoing pleasure" , "Moralistic type" , "Dour Protestant" , "Person of extreme moral strictness" , "Strict person for whom pleasure is sinful" .)

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