old bachelor

plural old bachelors

1. An old man who has never married.

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   The people produce far more food than they consume, and exchange the surplus for gongs and brass cannon, ancient jars, and gold and silver ornaments, which constitute their wealth. On the whole, they appear very free from disease, marriages take place early (but not too early), and old bachelors and old maids are alike unknown. Why, then, we must inquire, has not a greater population been produced?

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 141