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The term "spinster" was originally intended to indicate a woman who spun wool, thereby living independently of a male wage. These women were invariably single and, due to the medieval fear of unmarrie...
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The stereotype has become pervasive, as a short-hand for a certain kind of woman, ... She was the "old maid" librarian at the public library in town. Jimmy gets to see her coming out of the library in a very severe, unflattering outfit, wearing glasses, and no makeup. He calls out to her, she starts screaming hysterically.
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We have allowed this thought of heredity to become too great a bugaboo, and too often have allowed the richest blessing ... Womanhood And Marriage:; Womanhood And Marriage; The Meaning Of Sex; Mental And Spiritual Significance Of Sex; Am I A Complete Woman?; The Old Maid; Choosing A Husband; Judging A Man's Fitness;
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www.oldandsold.com/articles24/marriage-5.shtml
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A woman in the ancient world was almost guaranteed marriage, but never love. A married woman could do nothing for herself, in Greece never left the house, and was treated like a 10-year-old daughter by everyone around her.
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She's old enough to be her and new son and daughter's GREAT grandmother. A 70-year-old Indian woman has become the world's oldest mother giving birth to twins. ... She's old enough to be her brand new son and daughter's GREAT grandmother. ; A 70-year-old Indian woman has become the world's oldest mother giving birth to twins.
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Meaning #1: an elderly unmarried woman; Synonym: old maid; ... Episode 69 in the fifth season of the HBO series Sex and the City titled "Luck Be an Old Lady" dealt with Charlotte being increasingly fearful that she's become an old maid on her 36th birthday. She gives herself an Atlantic City style makeover and stuns the...
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Charlotte tells Delia that she has become an old maid so that Tina would not suspect. Later Charlotte overhears Tina with Lanning ... Delia marries a Ralston from fear of being an old maid, but lying to a Ralston causes her sister to endure that fate in an era when a woman's social role depended heavily on her husband.
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AN OLD MAID'S HOUSEHOLD ... for on the appearance of the register of mortgages--who had no defect except that of having married for her money an intolerable old woman, and of perpetrating endless puns, at which he was the ... In her inmost mind Mademoiselle Cormon had wished for the last dozen years to become Madame de Valois.
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OLD HOB. AKA and see "The Mousetrap [1]," "Marriage, or the Mouse Trap," "Of all the simple things we do," "A maid is like the golden ore." English, Jig. D Major. Standard tuning. AABB.
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www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/OLDHA_OLDMRS.htm
www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/OLDHA_OLDMRS.htm
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