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old maid definition

old maid

  1. a woman, esp. an older woman, who has never married; spinster: a mild term of contempt
  2. a prim, prudish, fussy person
  3. a simple card game played with a deck containing one card with no match, the loser being the player left with that card after all the others have been paired

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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