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spinster

[spin-ster] / ˈspɪn stər /
NOUN
(offensive) unmarried woman
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She’s trained by Cox, who gave her an extended break after a third-place finish in the Spinster Stakes last October.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2021

“After the Storm” is the final track on her new album, “Urban Driftwood,” which will be released Jan. 29 on the intersectional feminist label Spinster.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021

SoulCycle Spinster Will never love anyone the way she loves SoulCycle.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2016

This spring, browsing the new-book table, we can see these topics discussed in Kate Bolick's "Spinster" and Meghan Daum's anthology "Shallow, Selfish, and Self-Absorbed," in which 16 contributors explain their deliberately child-free lifestyles.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2015

On that occasion I will tell you the tale of The Adventure of the Virtuous Spinster.

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Curtis, Wardon Allan




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