Bachelor girl is an Australian band, comprised of James Roche (singer) and Tania Doko. One of their most well known songs is "Buses and Trains" Buses and Trains is a song from 1998. ...
It started when James Roche heard Doko singing at a pub in Melbourne. Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ...
They won an ARIA in 1998 and 1999. This article is about the musical term aria. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
In literature during the Victorian era, the term was sometimes used as a euphemism for a homosexual man (particularly in the phrase "confirmed bachelor").
Knights bachelor were either poor vassals who could not afford to take the field under their own banner, or knights too young to support the responsibility and dignity of knights banneret.
They were not allowed to witness the gymnastic exercises of the maidens; and during winter they were compelled to march naked round the market-place, singing a song composed against themselves and expressing the justice of their punishment.
A bachelor is an unmarried man, a young unmated fur seal, a medieval knight attached to another knight’s entourage, or a person who has a baccalaureate degree (also called a bachelor’s degree).
Bachelorgirl was once a Conversational and Informal name for a young, employed, unmarried woman living on her own.
Probably the only reason it has not come under attack for its use of girl to mean “an adult female” is that it has nearly fallen out of use.
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