bachelor girl
Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. an unmarried woman, especially a young one, who supports herself and lives alone.
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How to use bachelor girl in a sentence
Some years ago there lived in Vienna a very pretty bachelor girl, a sales-person in a very respectable shop.
Criminal Psychology | Hans GrossI am going to share lodgings with one of them, and be a bachelor girl on my own account.
The Independence of Claire | Mrs. George de Horne VaizeyIt will be quite an amusing experience to live the life of a bachelor girl.
The Independence of Claire | Mrs. George de Horne VaizeyOne assumes, of course, that she intends to remain a “bachelor girl.”
An Ocean Tramp | William McFeeAt last Katherine was the bachelor girl she had longed to be, but the pleasures of freedom were as Dead Sea fruit to the lips.
A Rock in the Baltic | Robert Barr
British Dictionary definitions for bachelor girl
a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting
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