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Word: spinsterdom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Lara. But these combine a distinctive Latin melodic gift with true poetic quality. With a kind of soft, confessional stridency, little hollow-eyed Lara whispers his songs to the women of Mexico. He pictures them in brothels, on their knees beside confessionals, in the arms of lovers, in frustrated spinsterdom. He is by turns caressing and despondent, lunar and neurotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mexican Meistersinger | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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