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bachelorette apartment
DCHP-2 (Sep 2016)
Spelling variants:bachelorette
n. — Housing
a small bachelor apartment.
Type: 5. Frequency — Although bachelorette apartment is also found in the US, its frequency in Canada is much higher (see Chart 1). In some instances, the term is used to refer to a single person dwelling, or bachelor apartment, for women (see, e.g. the 1955 and 1999 quotations). In other cases, however, bachelorette apartment is used indiscriminately of the gender of the occupant (see, e.g. the 1988 and 1992 quotations).
See also COD-2, s.v. "bachelorette" (2), and Gage-3, s.v. "bachelorette", which are marked "Cdn", and OED-3, s.v. "bachelorette" (2), which is marked "Canad.".
See also COD-2, s.v. "bachelorette" (2), and Gage-3, s.v. "bachelorette", which are marked "Cdn", and OED-3, s.v. "bachelorette" (2), which is marked "Canad.".
Quotations
1977
The City of Toronto probably will ask the courts to compel the owners of six buildings that may contain bachelorette apartments to convert their buildings back to rooming houses.
1988
An unemployed machinist who immigrated to Canada from Jamaica in 1971, Morris said he left his third-floor bachelorette apartment and took the stairs down to check on his friend.
1992
His passion for the written word just last week forced him out of his bachelorette apartment and into a full bachelor.
"There was no more room for both my books and for me," he explains.
References
- OED-3
- Gage-3
- COD-2
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