Bachelorette party for a pre-wedding party, "hen party" was used in the United States as a general term for an all-female gathering, usually held at a hostess's residence. In 1897, "The Deseret News" noted that a hen party was a "time honored idea that tea and chitchats, gossip smart hats, constitute the necessary adjuncts to these particular gatherings". In 1940 Eleanor Roosevelt was described as hosting a Christmas-time hen party for cabinet wives and "ladies of the press". The bachelorette party is consciously modeled after the centuries-old bachelor's party, which is itself historically a black tie dinner given by the bridegroom, or
Canu Llywarch Hen Canu Llywarch Hen Canu Llywarch Hen (modern Welsh /'kani 'ɬəwarχ heːn/, the songs of Llywarch Hen) are a collection of early Welsh "englyn"-poems. They comprise the most famous of the early Welsh cycles of "englynion" about heroes of post-Roman North Britain. As edited by Jenny Rowland, the contents of "Canu Llywarch Hen" are as follows: The poems contemplate martial, masculine culture, fate, and old age from a critical standpoint. As with the other so-called 'saga "englynion"’ (pre-eminently "Canu Urien" and "Canu Heledd"), there is considerable uncertainty and debate as to how the poems of "Canu Llywarch" might originally have been