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A woman proving she can commit to a sash before she commits to a husband.
means An unmarried woman, especially one celebrating her upcoming wedding with a bachelorette party.
from Built from 'bachelor' (medieval Latin baccalarius, originally a low-ranking knight or junior member of a guild, long before it meant an unmarried man) plus the French feminine ending '-ette,' the same suffix tacked onto words like 'cigarette' and 'kitchenette' to signal 'small' or 'female version of.' The word is a 20th-century American coinage, built to give unmarried women their own mirror-image term once 'bachelor parties' needed a counterpart.
- origin
- feminine coinage of bachelor, first recorded 1935
- industry
- fuels a multi-billion dollar party-planning economy
- irony
- celebrates independence days before surrendering her last name
- uniform
- veil plus sash, the bridal equivalent of a learner's permit