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It means to be without a woman.

The phrase only appears once in Shakespeare, in an unimportant speech in The Tempest, and is part of some side-imagery not even particularly relevant to the speech, as follows: " and thy broom -groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn" Apparently bachelors who have been dumped and are without a female companion like broom-grass.

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