spinster

These statements can take the form of two equal sides, like an equation, or the statement "A spinster is female and unmarried" .

A childless single woman of a certain age is no longer automatically perceived as a barren spinster.

Any other gay man of his time, raised by three spinster aunts in small-town Ohio, might well have stayed in self-loathing denial for ever.

You're allowed to step outside of that box of the classical spinster or working girl.

He was blacksmith, carpenter, tinsmith, brewer and veterinary all rolled into one, as his wife was spinster, weaver and doctor.

"Let us see, father, " said the old spinster.

Spinster was almost like a professional title similar to baker or tailor.

There is always the bachelor uncle or the spinster aunt living with a close friend.

that are generally run by two spinster sisters. Gothic white script above the premises proclaimed: Black an White Tea Room.

"Just my sister in New Mexico, " he volunteered. "But she's a humble spinster nun. "

the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman).

The poor good old woman was a spinster.

Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly spinster's indecision.

He left his Montana ranch to his spinster sister.

As an old spinster, she is lonely, sensitive and easily hurt.

the no-nonsense Barbara, a chain-smoking spinster in sensible shoes.

Twenty or thirty years ago it was believed that a women must either many young or risk becoming a spinster.

Have one girl the son be special ugly, all spinster also unmarriageable.

In America law and custom alike is based upon the dream of spinster .

Christie, Britain's "Queen of Crime" , admitted in later life that the elderly spinster was one of her favourite creations

Did you ever hear the one about the spinster found dead in her pink bathrobe, surrounded by golden retriever puppies?

Dola, a Greek spinster, is thirty years old but very dingy. She serves in the familial restaurant day after day.

you ' d be an old maid , a spinster