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Old maid

noun

An elderly unmarried woman. Synonym: spinster.

Any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads. Synonyms: old maid flower, zinnia.

Commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers. Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, periwinkle, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea.

The loser in a game of old maid.

A card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or 'old maid').

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"Old maid" Quotes from Famous Books

... the true and authentic story of Bettina," concluded my narrator. "You may see Bettina any day at Ettlingen, a yellow old maid forty years of age. Every Sunday she goes to mass at Durlach, where she employs the rest of the day in tending flowers on a grave, the first grave in the line to the ...

— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various

... that's all the affectation of an old maid. She may pretend to be put out, but as she kept quiet the whole time I am certain she would be glad to begin all ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... I knew that Joe, like most men, was as full of gossip and as eager for it as a convalescent old maid, and that, whoever might have been the first at his house to make the break for bed, he was the last to leave off talking. But the chief reason for my laugh was that, just before he came in on me, I was almost pinching myself to see whether I was dreaming it all, and he had made me ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various

... and several of his chums were seated around an old table and were having some fun over that highly intellectual game known as "old maid" or "old bachelor." ...

— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour

... her old nurse and she; an old coachman; and a pair of old coach-horses; and two or three old maid-servants, and perhaps a very old footman or two, (for every thing will be old and penitential about her,) live very comfortably together; reading old sermons, and old prayer-books; and relieving old men and old women; and giving old lessons, and old warnings, upon new subjects, as ...

— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson

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