spinster
Noun
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A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
A man who spins.
An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.
A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
Rosemary was only a spinster in the strict sense of denotation. She was eminently, eminently nubile.
Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.
You could not shock her more than she shocks me; Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass. It makes me most uncomfortable to see An English spinster of the middle class Describe the amorous effects of "brass," Reveal so frankly and with such sobriety The economic basis of society.
"The free man... believes in destiny and believes that it has need of him," wrote Martin Buber, the great Jewish philosopher. "Destiny," added Marianne Moore, the spinster poet, when she quoted Buber. "Not fate." What is this distinction Moore takes such care to draw between destiny and fate?
An old spinster is not worth more than a un posted letter.