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bachelor girl

noun

  1. Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. an unmarried woman, especially a young one, who supports herself and lives alone.


bachelor girl

noun

  1. a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting
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See girl.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bachelor girl1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

The accompanying text noted that she had been married briefly and was “now a bachelor girl.â€

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In fact she rather prided herself upon this, and upon being an independent bachelor girl who could always make her own way.

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They would take a studio together in Boston—perhaps in New York—and live the ideal life of bachelor girls.

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You know those bachelor girls about seventy-five apiece, over on Church Street near Aunt Louise's—the Miss Clarks?

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A spinster, or as the modern woman likes to call herself, the "bachelor girl," may not use cards engraved merely Miss Gray, unless she is the oldest daughter of a family.

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