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Maiden lady
Answer for the clue "Maiden lady ", 8 letters:
spinster
Alternative clues for the word spinster
- Someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
- Dickens's Miss Havisham, e.g.
- "Arsenic and Old Lace" aunt, e.g
- Like some aunts of yore
- Bachelor bait
- Frumpy loner, stereotypically
- Unmarried woman in a DJ, you could say
- Bachelorette's older relative
- Legs concealed by mostly severe woman not in formal relationship
Word definitions for spinster in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "female spinner of thread," from Middle English spinnen (see spin ) + -stere , feminine suffix (see -ster ). Unmarried women were supposed to occupy themselves with spinning, hence the word came to be "the legal designation in England of all unmarried ...
Usage examples of spinster.
As a gently bred spinster long on the shelf, she was not supposed to be aware of such things, but she had five brothers and was not a complete fool.
And like a schoolgirl of seventeen instead of a spinster of seven-and-twenty, she continued to harbor a ridiculous infatuation for him.
She was the spinster sister who would always be there to take care of the tedious little details of their daily lives, and they never saw the intelligent, sweet woman so deserving of their regard.
But at least, and at last, she had done this amazing thing, and would never be a pathetic spinster ever again.
But the most devastating of all was the discovery that his prized beauties, his cherished Arabians, had been peddled off like swine to Charles Gray-son, the cunning Baron Sytheford, who would actually force a marriage to his brassy, spinster daughter for their return.
I married an intelligent, elegant lady instead of a plain spinster who can do no more with her time than plant flowers.
English baron who had a spinster daughter to protect and an impeccable reputation to uphold.
Laura who was being initiated into the pleasures of sex to the flesh-and-blood spinster that was herself.
Certainly it did not belong to the placid spinster everyone took her to be.
As long as he remained a colonel instead of a man, then he was a part of the storm and she remained a spinster lady merely engaged in safe, however illicit, conversation.
Suddenly a voice came from a long distance away, surely not hers, any more than the ache in her breasts and the throb between her thighs belonged to her, a spinster who should be beyond the desires of her youth, a lady who should never experience such desires no matter what her age.
And realized that her hair was still caught up in the ugly bun that told the world she was a staid spinster, while inside her burned the same needs and wants that burned inside him, she caught up in a society that denied her womanhood, he caught up in a career that he had chosen when he was too young to know better.
An aging spinster who had propositioned a strangerand then had begged and cried for him not to stop.
They reminded her that, whether she be a staid spinster or a genteel lady or a wanton seductress, she was first and foremost a woman.
A girl needed to keep her options open--else she might just end a shriveled-up spinster at the age of twenty--like poor Inge.