spinster
العانس
definition
noun
He is a gigolo, a love 'em and leave 'em flimflam man who promises widows and spinsters marriage and devotion on the premise of a substantial upfront cash payment.
an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.
translation of 'spinster'
noun
العانس
example
I want you to realize that are better choices than being a lonely 'spinster' .
Jane is the bright spot in her lonely 'spinster' 's life, and a letter from Jane is what she lives and waits for.
A 'spinster' is more than a female bachelor: she is beyond the expected marrying age and therefore seen as rejected and undesirable.
Or perhaps, in a more generous mood, you'd have her turning 40 and sinking gracefully into the silent oblivion of confirmed 'spinsterhood' .
Both widows and 'spinsters' were prominent in property ownership and in financing businesses as sleeping partners.
Unmarried women over twenty were considered 'spinsters' , and bachelors in their late twenties were subjected to public censure and mockery.
Edith and her sister were trapped in 'spinsterish' lives, caring for their selfish, manipulative mother.
Sheba is branded a harlot in the press and forced to quit her job and flee the family home, which she does with Barbara Covett, the school's 'spinsterish' history teacher.
Brian told the secretary, a comically 'spinsterish' woman with a bun and glasses, that they were there for Mr. Mallard.
Single men and those with families, wives, widows and 'spinsters' could all be found in the movement.
If blame is to be laid, it should be at the feet of a handful of aged and godly 'spinsters' and widows who taught me through my primary education.
For example, until recently hardline bachelors and 'spinsters' were seen as odd and eccentric - while today they have become mainstream, even positive figures.
Lenore's a singing waitress who's been dumped by her long-term boyfriend; Heidi is a 'spinsterish' professor at Concordia, partnerless, but determined to get pregnant.
Her omnipotent Jewish mother valiantly works to end her daughter's 'spinsterhood' , but to no avail.
The experience of these nineteenth-century 'spinsters' cannot be divorced from their language because it structured their experience, indeed, it made their experience possible.
Female sexuality is now in a better state than it was in Victorian England, when women were categorised into three types: virgin 'spinsters' , wives who only tolerated sex, or whores.
Is this the sound of my impending 'spinsterhood' ?
Often they picked one child - usually a daughter - to stay home with the parents, caring for them well into her 'spinsterhood' .
Ann Street started life as an out-of-the-way address for well-to-do widows and 'spinsters' .
Texas's married women quickly relinquished power to their husbands after the Civil War, and 'spinsters' and widows in the Old Southeast maintained close economic and personal ties to kin.
Youths, who remained bachelors and 'spinsters' due to their economic backwardness, were identified and provided with the required cash and materials for settling down in life.
Not that single men of today do not have the same taste as the bachelors or 'spinsters' of those days but it so happened that during that period the circumstances were unique.
Too stern, too bookish, or too 'spinsterish' - it was obvious that choosing glasses is tougher than finding a single man who's not weird.
What is to be regretted, however, is the demise of all those conscientious 'spinsters' and widows who used to type authors' manuscripts.
At one time this would have raised eyebrows - all those lonely 'spinsters' and neglected bachelors sitting at home, pining for a mate.
He is a gigolo, a love 'em and leave 'em flimflam man who promises widows and 'spinsters' marriage and devotion on the premise of a substantial upfront cash payment.
I swear to God… I am preparing for my 'spinsterhood' .
Bachelors and 'spinsters' continued to be common and the age of marriage remained high.
The advice literature reiterated this view in the 1830s, '40s, and '50s, and the theme of true marriage and moral 'spinsters' persisted into the last decades of the century.
Finally, the night was drawing to an end and I was dragged up the front along with all the other unmarried 'spinsters' - against my protests - to try and catch the bouquet.
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