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.
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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