Spinster?

the spinster type, sort of.

Don't take me easy because I'm a spinster!

Mary Kate Danaher, spinster... and party to the second part...

Mr Sean Thornton, bachelor, meet Miss Mary Kate Danaher, spinster.

But, you know, we might die here, so I'm not going down as a spinster.

I, Iris Matilda Henderson... a spinster of no particular parish... do hereby solemnly renounce my maidenly past... and do declare that on Thursday next, the 26th inst., being in my right mind...

I was half dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor.

I was half dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor.