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Bachelor
The exact origins of this word are unknown; the earliest meaning of bachelor was "a young knight not old
enough to display his own banner and hence in the service of an older knight." It is in this sense, for
example, Chaucer uses the word in his Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
"With him ther was his sone, a
young squyer,
A lovyere, and a lusty bacheler."
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