old maid in English

noun
1
a single woman regarded as too old for marriage.
Do you wish for you and your sister to grow into single old maids ?
2
a card game in which players collect pairs and try not to be left with an odd penalty card, typically a black queen.
The school is also encouraging parents to introduce their children to cards games such as old maid , snap and bridge.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "old maid" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "old maid", or refer to the context using the word "old maid" in the English Dictionary.

1. I'm gonna die an old maid.

2. " Isn't she a cranky old maid? "

3. An old maid, that's what I'm to be

4. The term old maid is old fashioned and fairly derogatory — in other words, it's not nice to call someone An old maid.

5. Which is why I'll end up an old maid.

6. -died an old maid at the age of 80 10

7. An old maid Ein spätes Mädchen

8. Sub gin for bourbon, and you have An old maid

9. Old maid definition: People sometimes refer to an old or middle-aged woman as an old maid when she has never Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

10. 5 quotes have been tagged as old-maid: Billy Sunday: ‘Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.’, Rebecca Zanetti: ‘It’s Okay, Mom.” The

11. And, with mutual Courtesies, the little old maid and I went on …

12. For Russian society, I'm an old maid and hopeless to ever get married.

13. (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott) But still, you will be an old maid! and that's so dreadful! (Emma, by Jane Austen) Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare

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15. She had a few suitors in her youth, but now Edna is An old maid. My parents are pressuring me to get married—they don't want any of their daughters to become An old maid.

16. An old maid is a woman who's not married, especially one who's very old

17. She had a few suitors in her youth, but now Edna is An old maid

18. My mother says I need to find a husband, so I don't become an old maid.

19. 21 SCARLETT: As if I couldn't get a better beau than that old maid in britches.

20. Being An old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

21. Trinidad (1868-1951)-Trining was her pet name-she died also an old maid in 1951 aged 83 11

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23. My parents are pressuring me to get married—they don't want any of their daughters to become An old maid.

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25. When you hear someone described as An old maid, you'll know it's a comment on the fact that she has no husband

26. That, and the fact that I am like an old maid when it comes to black powder mak'in, reload'in, and all things Boomable

27. She continues to be ignored and fears she will die An old maid in a garret and may even settle for a parrot!

28. Soured on the concept of marriage due to her work, she has remained single and at age 36, is considered an old maid in Korean culture.

29. At what point did a young, single woman become an old maid? There was a definitive line: In the 17th century, it was a woman in her mid-20s

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31. At what point did a young, single woman become An old maid? There was a definitive line: In the 17th century, it was a woman in her mid-20s.

32. Brimming with finely observed details and Balzac's trademark insight into human motivations and morality, An Old Maid follows several men who have designs{u2014}honorable and not-so-honorable{u2014}on one of the village's wealthiest bachelorettes

33. An old maid, forced to employ her vacant days, could alone see to the grass being hoed from between the paving stones, the tops of the walls kept clean, the broom continually going, and the leather curtains of the coach-house always closed

34. I, a young maid once, an old maid now, deposed, despised, forgotten — I, like them, have thrilled with passion and have dreamed of nuptial rest, Of the trembling life within me of my baby unbegotten, Of the breathing new- born body to my yearning bosom prest Of the …

35. The storm last Thursday took out the dock where they landed their logs and they were compelled to stop hauling for a time; Buckwheater, the Gleaner's York correspondent, heaped coals of fire upon a red-beaded old maid correspondent for the Neillsville Press, and we wonder if "red-head" took Buckwheater's advice.