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Перевод: spinster

[существительное]
незамужняя женщина; старая дева

Тезаурус:

1. One common solution to this difficulty was "spinster clustering", that is, single women sharing accommodation and expenses.
2. In Now Voyager he played the family man caught up in a shipboard romance with a repressed spinster, Bette Davis, who has been prescribed a transatlantic cruise by her psychiatrist.
3. Lonsdale's ladies are by no means all aristocrats or the daughters of schoolmasters and clergymen; they include washerwomen, milkwomen and servant girls; the disreputable and the priggish, the contented spinster and the erring Duchess; loving wives, bluestockings, governesses, actresses and invalids are all represented.
4. Olwen Hufton maintains that in the eighteenth century the stereotypical spinster was " one to be despised, pitied, and avoided as a sempiternal spoilsport in the orgy of life".
5. "Always the same with these spinster types.
6. Ella Bembridge was a formidably hearty spinster of fifty-five who had lived, with a wilting friend of much the same age, in a small cottage on the Lulling corner of Thrush Green for the past ten years.
7. I outlined an elderly atrocious spinster and established her in Lamb House.
8. "Oh, anything to get it settled," said Mrs Doran, glaring at the spinster beside her.
9. This was put up to 50 in 1813 - peanuts to Miss Grove, a formidable spinster who had inherited 10,000 from her father when she was twelve.
10. Yet she cannot find an entirely satisfactory alternative, for the life of the spinster is often portrayed in stark terms.
11. Spinster (Jessica York, UK, 1990) women aged 26 to 86 talk about life in this enquiring documentary - part of the Norwich Women's Film Weekend, Feb 22-;24 at Cinema City.
12. At no. 52 lived Mr. Maton with his elderly spinster sister, a very quiet couple whose family had been in the house for almost two centuries.
13. He would place two cigarettes in his mouth, light them both, then hand one to the sex-starved spinster, sometimes even going to the length of installing it between her lips.