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English
Etymology
Perhaps originally for baboonery. Compare baboon, and also babe.
Noun
babery (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Finery of a kind to please a child.
a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:So have I seen trim books in velvet dight, / With golden leaves, and painted babery / Of silly boys, please unacquainted sight.
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