spinster

• Lord Francis Kneller, the first to call, informed her that after her seventh Season—she had been rash enough to give him the number—a young lady became officially known as a spinster and had to retire to a country cottage with a trunkful of large white mobcaps. —  Mary Balogh - Lord Carew's Bride
• The headline's use of the term spinster is clearly a pejorative term that connotes an attempt to avoid degradation and disapproval by society by maintaining single-status beyond the time that society believes is appropriate. —  GetReligion
• I suppose you understand that you have in this Will left 'everything' to the named legatee, Mary Deane, spinster, that is to say, excluding no item whatsoever? —  The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
• When the burden is no longer to be borne, a spinster is asked to share it A woman will forgive a man anything except disloyalty to herself. —  The Spinster Book
• "A friend, shall we say That's right," 'Bias nodded solemnly And the lady?--spinster or widow Widow Oh Eh Nothing I was considering. —  Hocken and Hunken

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