spinster
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There he meets with his chosen mark: Perla Hildegarda Inclán Arnao, a middle-aged spinster from a fallen family of coffee barons whose reserved nature doesn’t jibe with her passionate letters.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 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
"Why is spinster somehow negative? I really think it's great."
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2023
To many people the very word conjures up memories of choking on chalk dust and cowering in fear of a thwack on the knuckles from a spinster schoolteacher.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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