old maid

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American Heritage Dictionary (5 definitions)

    –noun
  1. Offensive A woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying.
  2. Informal A person regarded as being primly fastidious.
  3. Games A card game in which the player who holds a designated card at the end is the loser.
  4. Games The loser of this game.
  5. Chiefly Southern U.S. See zinnia.

Century Dictionary (2 definitions)

    –noun
  1. The house-or garden-plant Vinca rosea.
  2. A gaping clam: same as gaper, 4.

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  • A young lieutenant at the Academy and his fiancée were seen by an old maid at the hotel to kiss each other.
    Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point
  • How queer it seems to me that people won't let me be a little girl and will act as if I were an old maid or matron of ninety-nine!
    The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
  • She evidently had in mind the typical old maid with gimlet ringlets!
    Memories and Anecdotes
 

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