Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Bachelor’s-fare
subs. phr. (common).—See quot.
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1738. SWIFT, Polite Conversation, i. Some ladies of your acquaintance have promised to breakfast with you … what will you give us? Col. Why, faith, madam, BACHELOR’S-FARE, bread and cheese and kisses.
