singerien.

1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 4 June in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 142 The white wainscot..is painted with grey imitation of Indian ink pictures of monkeys in mens and womens clothes... I have some notion of having somewhere read of this cabinet of monkeys.]

1920 A. Stratton Eng. Interior 61 So many influences were tending to shape the arts in that century, that it is not surprising to find reflections of the French ‘Chinoiserie’ and ‘Singerie’ styles in English houses. The French painters Jean François Clermont..and Jean Pillement..both worked in this country, and their fanciful ‘Singeries’, in which monkeys play the rôle of horsemen and sportsmen, have a certain charm.

1920 E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 13 (title) Singerie.

1957 Economist 9 Nov. (Suppl.) 15/2 This style..gives excessive weight to the rest of their lives, which is that of the characters in Miss Mitford's novels: one-tenth genuine emotion (a bit more for Voltaire) and nine-tenths singerie.

1963 N. Pevsner Wiltshire 520 Ceiling with singeries by Andieu de Clermont,..far too finicky for Inigo's architecture.

1977 J. Fleming & H. Honour Penguin Dict. Decorative Arts 742/1 The vogue for singeries did not begin much before the end of the c17 and reached its height of popularity in the c18 when it became associated with chinoiserie... Singeries were painted on walls, in porcelain and faience, worked in piqué and in marquetry, embroidered and printed in textiles.