Unmarried woman, often older.
Someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
Someone who gives a positive interpretation to events.
1 You know, that book did Austen herself no good-died a spinster .
2 Summoning Esme, frail spinster that she was, was out of the question.
3 The spinster of the basement flat was about to take her place.
4 Time is issued to spinster ladies of wealth in long white ribbons.
5 She might remain a spinster : she hated the mere name of spinster .
6 The heart of a spinster of thirty-six is a well of tolerance.
7 It melted the old spinster , and she fell to kissing her, saying:
8 He did as he pleased and I didn't end up a spinster .
9 What the spinster would do toward making broth Janice did not know.
10 The gaunt spinster was cutting some bread-and-butter now with a savage air.
11 There is no subject which presents more difficulties to the inquiring spinster .
12 He began to tell them what had brought the ancient spinster there.
13 Women spun for their own households, and the term spinster was introduced.
14 On Wednesday a pair of spinster ladies came to look at it.
15 The spinster complied, and stood erect and stiff, with her arms folded.
16 Second, the only support of an aged or infirm spinster or bachelor.
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