Old maid (disambiguation)

An old maid is a spinster.

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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, a 1924 novella by Edith Wharton that was the basis for the 1935 Broadway play and the 1939 feature film
The Old Maid, 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
Old Maid (HBC vessel), 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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