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menarche

noun
/mɛˈnɑː.ki/UK/ˈmɛˌnɑɹ.ki/US

Etymology

First attested 1900, from German Menarche, formed from meno- + -arche.

  1. borrowed from Menarche

Definitions

  1. The onset of menstruation

    The onset of menstruation; a girl's first period.

    • How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.
    • The most potent and indeed dangerous of all menstrual blood was the menarche, the first day's flow of the first menstruation of a virgin girl.
    • Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter.

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