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
Writers and painters began to depict Elizabeth as a preposterous and vain old maid.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2018
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
Well, her sleeping like an old maid did prove one thing: she and Grandpa hadn’t been sweet on each other before Granny died.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
