spinster dans le dictionnaire PONS

Exemples monolingues (non-vérifiés par l'équipe de rédaction)

anglais
In the court order they are described as a bachelor and a spinster respectively.
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Its heads of households were found to consist of nine cultivators, three weavers, two spinsters, one dyer and one fuller.
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While everything is planned, they discover that the vacant apartment has just become occupied by two spinsters and their young, attractive maid.
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Many poorer girls were being taught in dame schools, informally set up by a widow or spinster to teach reading, sewing and cooking.
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People have always outed the mailman and the milkman and the spinster who lives down the block.
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Having never been married, she considers herself to be a spinster (or an elderly shut-in) with many fictional relationships with future husbands.
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Spinster often implied that the woman was older than the age when most women traditionally marry and that she would probably never marry; a more derogatory term was old maid.
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With a bit of coaxing, the ageing spinster tells the story of her life, leading to a flashback.
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She became the wealthiest spinster woman in the country with demise of her father.
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In the traditional setting, a bachelor or spinster is viewed as a social anomaly, because there is hardly any acceptable role for them in society.
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