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Old Maid is a 19th-century
American card game for two or more players,
probably deriving from an
ancient European gambling game in
which the
loser pays...
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old maid or
Old Maid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
old maid is an
older woman who has
never married.
Old maid or
Old Maid may also refer...
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Old maid's pink is a
common name for
several plants and may
refer to:
Agrostemma Saponaria officinalis Plants called old maid's pink
Flower of Agrostemma...
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Old Maidism Versus Marriage is a
short story by
Susan Petigru King from her
collection Busy
Moments of an Idle
Woman (New York: Appleton, 1853). In comparison...
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originally denoted a
woman whose occupation was to spin. A
synonymous term is
old maid. The
closest equivalent term for
males is "bachelor" or "confirmed bachelor"...
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Old Maid and the
Thief is a
radio opera in one act by Italian-American
composer Gian
Carlo Menotti. The work uses an
English language libretto by the...
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maid or housemaid: a
generic term for
maids whose function was
chiefly "above stairs", and were
usually a
little older, and
better paid...
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Old Maid is a 1939
American drama film
directed by
Edmund Goulding. The
screenplay by
Casey Robinson is
based on the 1935
Pulitzer Prize-winning play...
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perennial lupine, wild lupine,
sundial lupine, blue lupine,
Indian beet, or
old maid's bonnets) is a
flowering plant in the
family Fabaceae. The
leaves are palmately...
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Old Maids is an 1841
comedy play by the
Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. It was
first staged at the
Theatre Royal,
Covent Garden in
London on 12 October...