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spinster [ˈspınstə] N

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This led to laughable courtships with well-bred spinsters, including one who herself had lost her fortune to gambling.
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Sally on the other hand never married and died in the house, a spinster at the age of 82.
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Throughout the remainder of the 16th century and into the 17th century, the convent attracted young widowed or spinster noblewomen.
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At least one study found that modern spinsters feel a social stigma attached to their status, and a sense of both heightened visibility and invisibility.
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In the court order they are described as a bachelor and a spinster respectively.
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While everything is planned, they discover that the vacant apartment has just become occupied by two spinsters and their young, attractive maid.
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Spinster often implied that the woman was older than the age when most women traditionally marry and that she would probably never marry; a more derogatory term was old maid.
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Hence, a girl of twenty can not be properly called a spinster: she still has a chance to be married.
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Its heads of households were found to consist of nine cultivators, three weavers, two spinsters, one dyer and one fuller.
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The strip followed the experiences of a rural spinster raising her young cousin, a streetwise urban child.
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