bacheloretten.
/batʃələˈrɛt/ a. = bachelor girl n. at bachelor n. Compounds 1a originally and chiefly Canadian.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > independent
bachelor-maid1894
bachelor girl1895
bachelor woman1898
bachelor-lady1924
bachelorette1965
1935 Amer. Speech 10 315 The Bachelorettes is the self-explanatory name of a feminine social club in a western city.]
1965 Sat. Night (Toronto) Nov. 35 Articles now..describe the delights open to the ‘bachelorette’ who has left her family and is in no hurry to get married.
1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 Feb. 24/6 Why wasn't he dancing? ‘We ran out of eligible young bachelorettes.’
1982 Sunday Sun-Times (Chicago) 8 Aug. Living 3 A feature story on the bachelorette's party that ran in the Sun-Times Living pages.
b. A flat or apartment for a bachelor girl. Canadian.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people
grass house1557
woman-house1566
fishing-house1676
family house1727
henhouse1785
women-house1792
bachelor('s) hall1841
bachelor-apartment1857
garçonnière1927
bachelor1968
bachelorette1973
pit house1974
squat1975
1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Mar. 51 Rooms to Let... A beautiful bachelorette & rooms, Bloor-Spadina area.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Oct. 8/1 Builders of illegal bachelorettes.
Draft additions June 2015
bachelorette party n. North American a party given for a woman who is about to be married, typically attended by women only; cf. bachelor party n. at bachelor n. Compounds 1a.
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1943 Long Beach (Calif.) Independent 20 June 21/3 Dorothy Woolington's home is to be the meeting place Monday for another Bachelorette party.
1973 Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times 2 Aug. 18/1 For her bachelorette party a group of us rode..to a nightclub where..the bar was covered in fake leopard-skin.
2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones xx. 487 The average new resort..could serve equally well as the backdrop for a bachelorette party, regional sales meeting,..or gambling jaunt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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