Old maid (disambiguation)
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An old maid is a spinster.
Old maid or Old Maid may also refer to:
Games[]
- Old maid (card game), a simple game popular around the world, existing in many variants
- Alte Jungfer, a German card game (variant of Schrum-schrum) whose name translates as 'old maid'
Film[]
- The Old Maid (1939 film), an American drama film starring Bette Davis
- The Old Maid (1972 film), a French film by Jean-Pierre Blanc
Literature[]
- La Vieille Fille (novel) or The Old Maid, an 1836 novel by Honoré de Balzac
- The Old Maid (play), a 1935 play by Zoe Akins
- The Old Maid, a 1761 play by Arthur Murphy
Other uses[]
- Catocala badia or old maid, an owlet moth species
- Old maid, an unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels
- , operated by the HBC from 1928-1930, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels
See also[]
- The Old Maid and the Thief, a 1937 opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
- "Old Maid Boogie", a 1947 R&B song by Eddie Vinson
- Old maid's bonnets (Lupinus perennis), a flowering plant species in the family Fabaceae
- Old maid's insanity or erotomania
- Old maid's nightcap (Geranium maculatum), a flowering plant species in the family Geraniaceae
- Old-maid's-pink (Agrostemma), a flowering plant genus in the family Caryophyllaceae
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