Read full poem →The boy I loved best of all in the school?—
I, the teacher, the old maid, the virgin heart,
Who made them all my children.
Dictionary Entry
An old woman who has never married; a spinster.
In a Sentence
“If she is looking for the perfect man before she marries, she'll be an old maid.”
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Poetry examples for “old maid”
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Read full poem →For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
For me the sweet-heart and the old maid, for me mothers and the
mothers of mothers,