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Definition of the day : « old-maidish »
- adj genteel
- Laughing at her old-maidish precautions, they let her have her way.
- Extract from : « The Huntress » by Hulbert Footner
- This old-maidish attorney was meek and wise, but by no means timid.
- Extract from : « Guy Deverell, v. 2 of 2 » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- People had laughed at him for being so old-maidish, as they put it.
- Extract from : « Ladies and Gentlemen » by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
- Indeed, she was as prim and old-maidish as any spinster lady possibly could be.
- Extract from : « The Corner House Girls » by Grace Brooks Hill
- It has been in no busy, old-maidish, envious spirit that I have watched these affairs.
- Extract from : « Friends I Have Made » by George Manville Fenn
- I'm not old-maidish, my dear, though I've escaped holy matrimony.
- Extract from : « The Black Cat » by John Todhunter
- Mr. Reed, you certainly are the most old-maidish man I ever saw in my life.
- Extract from : « Trifles for the Christmas Holidays » by H. S. Armstrong
- He's an old-maidish sort of fellow, and is easily frightened.
- Extract from : « The Colossus » by Opie Read
- A gentle, old-maidish person and a sweet young girl of seventeen sat right in front of us that night at the Mannheim opera.
- Extract from : « A Tramp Abroad, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Miss Holmes was very nice and sensible, but there were some old-maidish traits.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old San Francisco » by Amanda Minnie Douglas