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A hypothetical wife. A bachelor has only an imaginary wife.
“Bachelors’ wives and old maids children be well taught.”—Heywood: Proverbs.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.