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Significados de spinster en inglés

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бобылиха
portugués
solteirona
catalán
fadrina vella
español
sotlerona
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Unmarried woman, often older.

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filater

Someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)

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Examples for "old maid"
Examples for "old maid"
1
They began almost to suspect the probity of the poor old maid.
Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents
2
She will not be the old maid of the family after all.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
3
Compared to that, being an old maid looks mighty good, believe me.
American empire: blood and iron
4
There was no love lost between the old maid and her relatives.
Original Short Stories — Volume 05
5
The chevalier and the old maid, believing themselves alone, were talking aloud.
Beatrix

Someone who gives a positive interpretation to events.

Uso de spinster en inglés
1
You know, that book did Austen herself no good-died a spinster.
Austenland
2
Summoning Esme, frail spinster that she was, was out of the question.
Secrets of a Perfect Night
3
The spinster of the basement flat was about to take her place.
The Lady of the Basement Flat
4
Time is issued to spinster ladies of wealth in long white ribbons.
Jacob's Room
5
She might remain a spinster: she hated the mere name of spinster.
The Philosopher's Joke
6
The heart of a spinster of thirty-six is a well of tolerance.
Letters of Two Brides
7
It melted the old spinster, and she fell to kissing her, saying:
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
8
He did as he pleased and I didn't end up a spinster.
Those who save us
9
What the spinster would do toward making broth Janice did not know.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
10
The gaunt spinster was cutting some bread-and-butter now with a savage air.
Winding Paths
11
There is no subject which presents more difficulties to the inquiring spinster.
The Spinster Book
12
He began to tell them what had brought the ancient spinster there.
A Hungarian Nabob
13
Women spun for their own households, and the term spinster was introduced.
Comic History of England
14
On Wednesday a pair of spinster ladies came to look at it.
Hiram the Young Farmer
15
The spinster complied, and stood erect and stiff, with her arms folded.
A Woman-Hater
16
Second, the only support of an aged or infirm spinster or bachelor.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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Spinster a través del tiempo
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