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名詞

spinstress (plural spinstresses)

1. A woman who spins.
   • 1685, Tom Brown, A Paraphrase on Horace of Vides et Alta:

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

参照

• “spinstress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.