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单词 musery
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museryn.1

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French muserie.
Etymology: < Middle French muserie (c1220 in Old French) < muser muse v. + -erie -ery suffix.
Obsolete. rare.
An amusement, a pastime.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun]
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gameeOE
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pastime?1473
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exercise1622
amusement1632
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diversiona1684
ploya1689
lounge1788
divertissement1804
happening1959
letterboxing1977
timepass1982
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 102 Pleyinge..at dees, at merelles, and manye oothere museryes [Fr. muserie].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

museryn.2

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: muse n.1, -ery suffix.
Etymology: < muse n.1 + -ery suffix, after jewellery n.
Obsolete.
Embellishment of the work of the Muses.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > Muse > work
musery1869
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [noun] > the muses > work of
musery1869
1869 G. Meredith Let. 19 Dec. (1970) I. 407 Why, this stuff [sc. Tennyson's Holy Grail] is not the Muse, it's Musery. The man has got hold of the Muses' clothes-line and hung it with jewelry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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