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old maid

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old maid
a card game using a pack from which one card has been removed, in which players try to avoid holding the unpaired card at the end of the game


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But then, to be an old maid at last, like Miss Bates
This lady was now somewhat past the age of thirty, an aera at which, in the opinion of the malicious, the title of old maid may with no impropriety be assumed.
"Mother is not an old maid," said his virgin sister with pinched lips.
 
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