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СТАРАЯ ДЁВА NP fixed WO

a woman past her youth who has never married, has no sexual experience

old maid

spinster.

Она знала: либо за Игоря, либо в старые девы. Она не могла без него (Ерофеев 3). She knew that it was either marry Igor or become an old maid. She couldn't live without him (3a).