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Middle English
Noun
bachelrye (plural bachelryes)
- Alternative spelling of bachelrie
1387–1400, Chaucer, “The Tale [of Oxenford]”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published , →OCLC, folio 177, recto:And of his retenue the bachelrye,
With many a sown of sondry melodye
Un to the village, of the which I tolde,
In this array the righte wey han holde.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)