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What is a spinster?

What is a spinster? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (dated) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
  2. One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spin master.
  3. (obsolete) Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
  4. (obsolete) A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
  5. (rare) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
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Only God can help if you are wheatish you will probably die an old spinster.
Mme D. likes to pull strings, and uses her pallid lady's companion, the spinster Capulat, as her factotum.
Bening plays the spirited Sue Barlow, a spinster who has waited to meet the right man.
I want you to realize that are better choices than being a lonely spinster.
In the course of her work as suffragette organiser Miss Schuster, a spinster, we are told, used to firebomb pillar boxes.
Physically, she brilliantly embodied the shrewd, sharp-eyed, owlish spinster, while also conveying her intuitive acumen and razor-sharp mind.

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