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
“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
Buzzi herself told The Times in 2011 about working with John Wayne on the variety show, including in one sketch where Gladys wasn’t a spinster.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
"She's described in the record as a spinster," said Prof English.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
They came more out of kindness than faith, giving the aging spinster a chance to recall her good old days in the tenements.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
The closest I have found have been eccentric spinsters and ambivalent parents, in a long line from Doris Lessing and DH Lawrence, Barbara Pym and Rachel Cusk.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2020
"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
Mrs Morgan ran it with her daughters, who were elderly spinsters.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2016
Into this breach steps Bolick, offering her own story as inspiration to other spinsters, but it’s sometimes confusing how she thinks it could help.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2015
For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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