batchelor
See also: Batchelor
English
Noun
batchelor (plural batchelors)
- (Britain) Archaic spelling of bachelor.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- […] could Richard have anticipated that his elder brother, Sir Everard, taking to heart an early disappointment, would have remained a batchelor at seventy-two.
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