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spinstress

noun

Etymology

From spinster + -ess.

  1. inherited from spynnestere — “woman who spins fibre”
  2. suffixed as spinstress — “spinster + ess”

Definitions

  1. A woman who spins.

    • Let meaner Souls by Virtue be cajold, As the good Grecian Spinstress was of old

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