Coelebs in Search of a Wife

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Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809) is a book by English religious writer Hannah More. It was followed by Coelebs Married in 1814.

Coelebs (or caelebs) is Latin for "bachelor", the source of the English word celibate; it appears in zoology in Finchilla coelebs, the "bachelor bird".

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

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