maidel

The new volunteer post required her to move to New York City – a courageous step for a 21-year-old Midwestern maidel.

We Remember - Nell Ziff Pekarsky, 1910 - 1998 2010

Anonymous said ... actually, in that instance, it would be such a schaines maidel

Dr Bubbe aka TBTAM 2008

Shaineh maidel was grandparent Yiddish, maybe even great-grandparent Yiddish.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

She was his shaineh maidel, which meant that he adored her with some part of himself that was mysterious to me, and must have been equally mysterious to him.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

And then he would call her his shaineh maidel again.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

Had my father crooned into her baby scalp and called her his shaineh maidel the moment he first saw her, his lovely girl, his beautiful daughter—and was she therefore the child of his Jewish sentimentality, Shani because he had never clapped his eyes on anything prettier in his life, and there was no other word to describe her?

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

Just why was she thinking of her fun-loving maidel aunt on a night like this?

Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002

So because I was stubborn, I was in danger of becoming a maidel -- in short, a maiden lady like Aunt Lizzie Brenneman, although she was anything but glum about her state in life.

Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002

Far as she knew, Lizzie had gone directly from her parents 'farmhouse to the log cabin, once she was considered a maidel.

Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002

They could either help her live as a maidel with a child, or they could reject her, cast her out -- shun her.

Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002