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† ˈbabery Obs.
Also 4 babeuwry, -eurie, 6 baberie.
[perhaps orig. a spoken or written corruption of babwynrie, baboonery; in later use f. babe, baby n. 4.]
Grotesque ornamentation in architecture and books; grotesque absurdity.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame 1189 (Caxton) Many subtyl compassynges, As babeuwryes [v.r. babeuries, rabewyures, rabewynnes] and pynnacles, Ymageryes and tabernacles. c1400Destr. Troy v. 1563 Ymagry ouer all..Of bestes and babery. 1580Sidney Arcad. Verses x. 181 Trim bookes in velvet dight With golden leaves and painted baberie. 1613E. Hoby Counter-snarle 13 Thus might I stuffe much paper, with many like vnsauoury Baberies. 1678Phillips App., Babeuries (old word), antick shapes, ridiculous forms of things. 1775Ash, Babery, the finery with which children are delighted. Babewries, odd kind of antic works, silly things. |