bachelordom

He had grabbed his only chance to preserve his basic interests: his bachelordom and his billions.

Occasionally a matrimonial epidemic appears, especially toward spring, devastating society, thinning the ranks of bachelordom, and leaving mothers lamenting for their fairest daughters.

The rest of the room was a casual assortment of easygoing bachelordom mixed with the trappings of a theoretical scientist's workplace.

As one might imagine, Mr. Roe, 27, was inebriated, celebrating his final days of bachelordom in that timeworn rite of passage known as the stag party.

Osborne imagines her prizing him out of bachelordom with sweet puddings, "tempting him with rich gravies that disguised the stringiness of postwar meat."

CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS Against all chambermaids, of whatsoever age or nationality, I launch the curse of bachelordom!