bachelor quarters, noun phrase

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Also bachelors’ quarters.
hostel sense 1 a.
1963 A.M. Louw 20 Days 114Enog..walked swiftly in the direction of the bachelors’ quarters where lived the amasoka — the wifeless ones, who either had no wife, or had not the permission to bring a wife from the homelands to live in Cape Town.
1970 Cape Times 5 JuneBlack ‘labour force units’ are tolerated in urban ‘bachelor quarters’ while their ‘superfluous appendages’ are removed from their ‘dwelling units’ and ‘repatriated’ to ‘resettlement camps’.
1971 Rand Daily Mail 16 Feb.It was a terrible choice either to live in with his family without work-facilities or live in bachelors’ quarters and have the security of working for people he knew.
1979 E. Prov. Herald 16 Feb. (Suppl.) 7Hundreds of people were occupying bachelor quarters illegally, and these men were not only staying there with their wives and children but were not paying any rent.
1980 E. Joubert Long Journey of Poppie Nongena 187What will become of you when tata-ka Bonsile has to move to the bachelor quarters and you have no roof over your heads?
1987 Frontline Feb. 13He lived in the bachelor quarters at PE’s Kwazakele township...The undiluted squalor of the ablution blocks, the desperate attempts at privacy by men of all ages shoved into a dormitory-like existence, the single, bare light bulb, grey walls, cement floors..this is the ghetto to beat all ghettoes.
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