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Subject: Re: [Bklyn] Spinster definition
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:46:53 EDT

In a message dated 5/4/2004 10:22:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
>
> Definition: [n] someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
> [n] an elderly unmarried woman
>
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I can verify that "spinster" had more than one meaning, especially years
ago. I have seen the term applied simply - in 1922 - to an unmarried female of 18
years old (on her marriage certificate) = "never married"). It was almost the
equivalent of bachelor.

Allen
www.lindytruth.org

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