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How do you say SOLTERONA in English?

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"An OLD MAID you called me? I just bought the apartment you rent. Ha, ha!" The word is SPINSTER which refers to one of the very few jobs women were allowed in the past: spinning thread. A SPINSTER is an unmarried woman, childless and perhaps bitter. These days the term has acquired a connotation and is used for mature women who stand on their own and don't need a man to get on with their lives. Another common term, perhaps more appropriate for being less offensive is OLD MAID. 

What's a SÉANCE in Spanish?

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"I feel something evil beneath the table. Maybe , it's a Poltergeist!" Originally taken from French the term SÉANCE indicates an attempt to communicate with the Dead. For a SÉANCE to take place it is necessary to use the services of a person with the faculty to transcend this world and talk with the spirits of those who have passed away and such person is called a Medium. That there is real contact with the beyond is questionable, but still lots and lots of people go for it anyway. In Spanish there is not one word for SÉANCE and we only say SESIÓN ESPIRITISTA.