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French
Pronunciation
Noun
vieille fille f (plural vieilles filles)
- spinster, old maid
1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 1, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 1:M. Myriel était arrivé à Digne accompagné d’une vieille fille, mademoiselle Baptistine, qui était sa sœur et qui avait dix ans de moins que lui.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)