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A spinster, there is nothing old maidish about her comfortable appearance; only her keen blue eyes belie her look of somewhat stolid placidity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alma, so said Exeter people, was becoming unsociable and old maidish.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

While Lindy—well, in her black sewin' dress and white apron, she looks slimmer and more old maidish than ever.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell

Fourthly, Madame Aubrey, a widow, a sort of second cousin, old maidish, talky— Man.

From The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet by Edwards, Pierrepont

She lost all consciousness that he was a strange man plunged down suddenly in the midst of her old maidish existence—and a strange man, too, who had once behaved in a most outrageous fashion.

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec