1. Of females: Sole, solitary, alone.
1753. Richardson, Grandison (1811), V. xxi. 137. Aunt Nell would not have descended sola into her greys, nor Cicely Badger neither, if they might have obtained the men of their choice.
1768. Miss Burney, Early Diary (1889), I. 10. I should be content to love Sola—and let Dueto be reserved for those who have a proper sense of their superiority.
1825. T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. Sutherl., I. 39. James … found the matron sola, and evidently prepared for a solemn discussion of the weighty affair.
2. techn. Of bills: (see quot.).
1866. Crump, Banking, v. 101. A ‘sola’ bill of exchange is a single bill, as distinguished from bills drawn in ‘sets.’
