bachelor's hall
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (obsolete or historical) A place where unmarried men live.
- 2007, Benjamin L. Carp, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution:
- Boston's laborers and seamen crowded into tiny wooden two-family houses or “bachelor's halls,” many of which were located near the wharves.
- 2014, Marilyn Masson, Kukulcan's Realm: Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán:
- Proskouriakoff (1962a:89) observed that the central Mexican young men's houses or “bachelor's halls” were dispersed around Tenochtitlan and were not listed among Sacred Precinct edifices.