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单词 babery
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baberyn.

Brit. /ˈbeɪbəri/, U.S. /ˈbeɪbəri/
Forms:

α. late Middle English babeuwry, late Middle English babeweuries (plural), 1500s babeuries (plural, in print of lost Middle English MS), 1700s babewries (plural, historical).

β. 1500s baberie, 1500s– babery.

Origin: Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: baboonery n.
Etymology: Originally (in α. forms) perhaps a variant (with loss of medial -n- ) of baboonery n. (although this is first attested later; compare α. forms at baboonery n. and α. forms at baboon n.). In later use (in β. forms) probably originally a variant of the α. forms with reduction of the second syllable, probably reinforced by reanalysis as showing babe n. or baby n. + -ery suffix (compare baby n. 5).Earlier currency is apparently implied by post-classical Latin babeweria (1322 in a British source), which appears to show an isolated borrowing of the English word:1322 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1914) VII. 334 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 6722) XXVI. 1 j. sella pro palefrie cum babeweria de ibornio.
Now rare.
Grotesque or absurd ornamentation, carving, or pictures; an example of this. Cf. baboonery n. 1, baby n. 5.Johnson (1755) gives the definition: ‘finery to please a babe or child’, which is followed in some later dictionaries.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun] > specific style > work in specific style
babooneryc1400
babery?c1450
fretizing1626
Japan17..
rococo1843
Japanesery1885
?c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Pepys) (1880) l. 1189 Mony sotell compassinges Babeweuries [c1450 Fairf. Rabewyures; c1475 Bodl. Rabewynnes; 1483 Caxton babeuwryes; 1532 Thynne babeuries] and pennacles Ymageries and Tabernacles.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 26v Ymagry ouer all amyt þer was Of bestes and babery.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. sig. H3v Trim bookes in veluet dight With golden leaues, & painted babery [1598 baberie].
1613 E. Hoby Counter-snarle 13 Thus might I stuffe much paper, with many like vnsauoury Baberies.
1865 R. F. Burton Stone Talk 6 With comforts comfortless that find Such favour in the island mind Bestuffed, and nicknack babery o'er.
1963 M. D. Anderson Drama & Imagery in Eng. Medieval Churches 1 The carving cannot be dismissed as a mere babery, since all the other angels hold attributes which clearly refer to the Passion of Christ or the Last Judgment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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