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spinstress|ˈspɪnstrɪs|
[f. spinster + -ess.]
1. A female spinner.
1643Howell Twelve Treat. (1661) 206 Spinstresses are become States-women, and every peasan turned politician. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 11 Ovid's Lydian-Spinstresse, that proud Madam which Pallas..transform'd into the Spider. a1704T. Brown Odes of Horace Wks. 1711 IV. 359 Let meaner Souls by Virtue be cajol'd, As the good Grecian Spinstress was of old. 1713Gentleman Instructed i. Suppl. p. lv, You are a kind of Mulatoe,..a compound of Gentleman and Spinstress. 1841Penny Cycl. XX. 139/2 Lady Hamilton..was painted in various characters, as..Sensibility, a Bacchante,..the Spinstress.
2. A maiden lady; a spinster.
1716in Payne Eng. Cath. (1889) 11 Gertrude Beveridge,..spinstress. 1821Scott Pirate xii, He actually ventured to salute the withered cheek of the spinstress. |