society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [verb (intransitive)] > remain unmarried or be old maid (2)
to lead apes in hell: the fancied consequence of dying an old maid. to say an ape's paternoster: to chatter with cold.
to dance barefoot: said of an elder sister when a younger one was married before her. Obsolete.