spinster
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Regarded in her time as "a reclusive spinster that never left her house", she was determined to be free to pursue a life of artistic expression.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
This image may have been reinforced by a book Augustus wrote about her after her death that painted her as "this crazy spinster lady who lived in Paris".
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
“I’m a geriatric pregnant spinster who puts crystals in her bra,” Helen says in an unusual moment of self-awareness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
They're living in a rural village together, two spinster women.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023
Margaret remained a spinster, but Catherine married twice.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
As her New York Times obituary put it, “She specialized in sourness, or, more politely, acerbity, which she used to her comic advantage in roles as housekeepers, spinsters, wicked stepmothers, nuns and back-talking secretaries.”
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2019
He would like to see the two take up the approved life of spinsters.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2018
"This is the nature of the debate on things this big, like tax reform," Ryan said."You've got pundits and spinsters and all of this spinmeisters out there, you know, confusing the public."
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2017
Between 1934 and 1939, two "nervous British spinsters" were regular visitors to the opera houses of Germany and Austria.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2017
And yet she could see her two daughters, two spinsters beyond the marriageable age; they were at least twenty-five.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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