bachelrie

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French bachelerie.

Noun

bachelrie (plural bachelries)

  1. (countable) a group of knights or squires
  2. (uncountable) chivalry; knighthood
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Hengwrt Manuscript. The Manciples Tale, folio 109a l. 125-6.
      This Phebus þat was flour of Bachelrye
      As wel in fredom as in Chiualrye
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

  • English: bachelry

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