spinsterhood

基本解釋

She had stiffened into a pronounced spinsterhood .
她古板得成了十足的老処女。
The world had made up its mind about her oddity in her spinsterhood.
對(duì)於她這種古怪的老姑娘，外麪的世界早已經(jīng)有了固定的成見。

This novel celebrates the honourable estate of spinsterhood and the tentative emergence of suburban Australian society.
ECONOMIST: Fiction from Australia
Once factors such as spinsterhood and early hysterectomy were eliminated from the statistics, it became clear that the centenarians were three times more likely to have given birth to at least one child in their 40s than those who had then gone on to live only an average lifespan.
ECONOMIST: Ageing

the state or time of being a spinster (= a woman (usually an older woman) who is not married)