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bachelor-at-arms

Variant of bachelor

noun

  1. in the feudal system, a young knight and landholder who served under another's banner
  2. a man who has not married
  3. a young male animal, specif. a fur seal, that has not yet mated

Origin: ME bacheler < OFr bachelier < ML baccalaris: see baccalaureate

adjective

of or for a bachelor

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