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OLD LADY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Your own wife
Example:
meet my old lady
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("old lady" is a kind of...):
married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)
Context examples:
Sir Nigel, who had entered the room with a silvery-haired old lady upon his arm, stared aghast at this sudden outburst of candor.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"The North is my home," said the old lady, "and at its edge is the same great desert that surrounds this Land of Oz. I'm afraid, my dear, you will have to live with us."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
"Ay, you may abuse me as you please," said the good-natured old lady, "you have taken Charlotte off my hands, and cannot give her back again. So there I have the whip hand of you."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The old lady, had been reading her morning portion of Scripture—the Lesson for the day; her Bible lay open before her, and her spectacles were upon it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. Moffat was a fat, jolly old gentleman, who knew her father, and Mrs. Moffat, a fat, jolly old lady, who took as great a fancy to Meg as her daughter had done.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I won't know your story professionally, for nothing, old lady!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward circumstances, can excite.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
These papers, he continued as the old lady vanished, are not of very great importance, for, of course, the information which they represent has been sent off long ago to the German government.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the door there was a golden key, and when she turned it the door sprang open, and there sat an old lady spinning away very busily.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He and his wife, the old lady who had received me, looked at each other in a frightened sort of way.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
