old maid
Example Sentences
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If they chance upon the foul water, they are set to marry a widow or widower and if they choose the empty dish "the person is destined to be a bachelor or an old maid".
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023
One instance was fairly low stakes: she told my sister-in-law I had called her an old maid, which was not true.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2021
Still, we suspect that she is a sad case, a solitary old maid gabbing to her niece about happier times.
From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017
“Your piano’s an old maid with a gray tabby on her lap,” Rosetta says bluntly.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016
The younger girls formed hopes of coming out a year or two sooner than they might otherwise have done; and the boys were relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte’s dying an old maid.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
