DCHP-2

bachelorette apartment bachelorette DCHP-2 (September 2016)

• n. — Housing

  a small bachelor apartment.

  Type: 5. Frequency — Although bachelorette apartment is also found in the US, its frequency in Canada is much higher (see Chart 1). In some instances, the term is used to refer to a single person dwelling, or bachelor apartment, for women (see, e.g. the 1955 and 1999 quotations). In other cases, however, bachelorette apartment is used indiscriminately of the gender of the occupant (see, e.g. the 1988 and 1992 quotations).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "bachelorette" (2), and Gage-3, s.v. "bachelorette", which are marked "Cdn", and OED-3, s.v. "bachelorette" (2), which is marked "Canad.".

  See also: bachelor  bachelor apartment  two-and-a-half  

  • 1955  1 Harbord St. Trinity Apartments, bachelorette apartment suit business woman, reasonable rent. 
  • 1977  The City of Toronto probably will ask the courts to compel the owners of six buildings that may contain bachelorette apartments to convert their buildings back to rooming houses. 
  • 1988  An unemployed machinist who immigrated to Canada from Jamaica in 1971, Morris said he left his third-floor bachelorette apartment and took the stairs down to check on his friend. 
  • 1992  His passion for the written word just last week forced him out of his bachelorette apartment and into a full bachelor. "There was no more room for both my books and for me," he explains. 
  • 1999  HELLO FEMALES! Beauty-full Bachelorette Suite for Rent: *near Fraser and 12th Avenue, Vancouver 
  • 2009  Once complete, the second-stage housing project will feature five units - one bachelorette apartment and four, one-bedroom apartments.