Talk:thornback

Other (mentiony) cites of the spinster sense
- -sche (discuss) 01:52, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 2016, Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own, Broadway Books (ISBN 9780385347150), page 17:
 * If a woman wasn&#39;t married by twenty-three she became a &quot;spinster.&quot; If she was still unwed at twenty-six, she was written off as a hopeless “thornback,&quot; a species of flat, spiny fish—a discouraging start to America&#39;s long evolution
 * 2020, Marilyn Brokaw Hall, Lights Above Cass (ISBN 9781796078312):
 * The word bachelor has kind of a romantic ring to it, compared to thornback or spinster, don't you think[?]