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An old maid is an older woman who has never married and never had children.

Old maid or Old Maid may also refer to:

Games

• Old maid (card game), a simple game popular around the world, existing in many variants
• Alte Jungfer, a German card game (variant of Schrum-schrum) whose name translates as 'old maid'

Film

• The Old Maid (1939 film), an American drama film starring Bette Davis
• The Old Maid (1972 film), a French film by Jean-Pierre Blanc

Literature

• La Vieille Fille (novel) or The Old Maid, an 1836 novel by Honoré de Balzac
• The Old Maid (novella), a 1924 novella by Edith Wharton; basis for the 1935 play and the 1939 film
• The Old Maid (play), a 1935 play by Zoe Akins
• The Old Maid, a 1761 play by Arthur Murphy

Other uses

• Catocala badia or old maid, an owlet moth species
• Old maid, an unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels
• Old Maid (HBC vessel), operated by the HBC from 1928 to 1930, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels

See also

• The Old Maid and the Thief, a 1937 opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
• "Old Maid Boogie", a 1947 R&B song by Eddie Vinson
• Old maid's bonnets (Lupinus perennis), a flowering plant species in the family Fabaceae
• Old maid's insanity or erotomania
• Old maid's nightcap (Geranium maculatum), a flowering plant species in the family Geraniaceae
• Old-maid's-pink (Agrostemma), a flowering plant genus in the family Caryophyllaceae