bachelrie

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bachelerie, bachelerye, bachelery, bachelrye, bachilrye
• bachelry (Standardized)

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 [p. 580] 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

References

• “bachel(e)rie, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.