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单词 bauble
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baublen.

Brit. /ˈbɔːbl/, U.S. /ˈbɔb(ə)l/, /ˈbɑb(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English babil, Middle English babull, Middle English babulle, Middle English babylle, Middle English–1500s babel, Middle English–1500s babyl, Middle English–1500s babyll, Middle English–1600s bable, 1500s babble, 1500s babell, 1500s babill, 1500s– bauble, 1500s– bawble.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymons: French babel, baubel.
Etymology: Apparently < Old French babel, baubel child's toy, trinket, little present (13th cent., rare), of uncertain origin (see note). In branch II. apparently also connected with babble v.2, although the nature of the relationship is unclear (see note).Origin of the Old French word. The origin of the Old French word is unclear. It may be related to Anglo-Norman beubelet , beaubelet jewel ( < beau beautiful (see beau adj.) + belet jewel ( < bel beautiful (see beau adj.) + -et -et suffix1)). Compare post-classical Latin baubellum jewel, trinket (c1200 in a British source). Alternatively it may show a suffixed reflex of a Romance base with connotations of indistinct speech and hence childishness and foolishness, ultimately < the syllable /ba/ which is characteristic of early infantile vocalization (compare babble v.1). Compare the later Middle French babole , Middle French, French babiole trinket, child's toy (16th cent.), although this may have arisen independently after a similar formation in another Romance language; compare Italian †babbolo childish thing (17th cent., rare) and also post-classical Latin babulus babbler, fool (2nd cent. a.d. in Apuleius), Old Occitan babau fool. Historical development of the English word. Branch II. apparently shows some connection with babble v.2 The branch may show an internal sense development of sense 1, perhaps with reference to the resemblance of the loose metal weights to a hanging ornament, in which case it may have influenced (or have been influenced by) babble v.2 Alternatively, this branch could originally have shown a distinct word derived directly < babble v.2 (perhaps in turn with influence from branch I. of bauble n.). Branch III. could conceivably have developed from either of these starting points; the development was probably influenced by both branches, and probably reinforced by the connotations of foolishness of babble v.2 and related words.
I. An ornament, trinket, or toy, and related senses.
1.
a. A small ornament, piece of jewellery, decorative accessory, etc., that is showy or attractive but typically inexpensive or of little value; a trinket, a knick-knack.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy > gewgaw or trinket
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knick-knacket1793
knick-knackery1812
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pretty1882
trinklet1897
mathom1954
tchotchke1968
c1330 Simonie (Auch.) (1991) l. 272 Nu nis no squier of pris..But if þat he bere a babel and a long berd.
?c1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 237 This febyll world..Promoteth his louers for a lytell while, But at the last he yeveth hem a bable.
1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London sig. B.iiv Amber, Jeat, Corall, Christall, and euery such bable, That is slight, prettie and pleasant.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iii. 82 It is [a] paltrie cap,..a bauble, a silken pie. View more context for this quotation
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) ii. iii. ii. 292 Wherein lyes their worth & sufficiency? in a few cotes of armes..and such like bables.
1740 H. Walpole Corr. I. 69 A little box of bawbles that I have bought for presents.
1755 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 386 I send you enclosed what I am sure you will value above a Bath bauble,—the picture of a friend.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 22 Forester looked upon a watch as a useless bauble.
1877 L. Dande Blue Blood xi. 185 He lifted..earings and necklace of imitation pearls. Then his brow contracted as he held the pretty baubles in his hand.
1969 M. H. Wolf Vermont is always with You 81 Mail-order catalogues are filled with an incongruous assortment of shiny luxurious gifts,..treasures that will be cherished for a lifetime and baubles that will be broken or forgotten.
2012 Times 1 Mar. 67/4 In another life she would have been designing sparkly baubles to hang around the neck.
b. A decoration hung on a Christmas tree, (now) esp. a small, light, brightly-coloured or shiny ball made of glass or plastic.In earliest use perhaps simply a contextual use of sense 1a.Now rare in North American use, where the more general term ornament is more common.
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1862 Observer 28 Dec. 7/3 There was a Christmas tree of giant growth, covered with tempting baubles.
1872 Janesville (Wisconsin) Gaz. 17 Dec. Others..make of their Christmas-trees mere show-pieces, on which to arrange artistically the glittering baubles, the stars, angels, etc.
1896 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 26 Dec. 6/4 As hollow and fragile as the glass baubles which are put on Christmas trees.
1980 N.Y. Times 14 Dec. xi. 26 The Scotch pine near the bookcase is dressed for a party and so are we. The tree sparkles, its baubles shine.
1992 Ideal Home (BNC) Dec. 42 The tree has pride of place, decorated with purple, red and gold baubles with strings of pearl beads and silver cord garlands draped from branch to branch for a touch of elegance.
2020 Irish Times (Nexis) 5 Dec. 16 Bringing an evergreen tree into our homes before Christmas to decorate with lights and baubles is one of the most enduring traditions of the festive season.
2. An object for children to play with; a toy, a plaything. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > [noun]
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a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 117 He þat no good can..He shalle neuer y-thryve, þerfore take to hym a babulle.
1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avv Marked in your cradels To beare fagottes for babyls.
1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. B4v To beguile mine appetite as women do their children..when they giue them a bable to play withall.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Poupée, a babie; a puppet or bable.
1652 Sectary Dissected 24 Give the childe his bable before he cry.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xix. 70 The little hand which there Played with the bauble.
1915 Altamont (N.Y.) Enterprise 10 Dec. There is hardly a new war tool of importance which has not to some degree furnished a pattern for a child's bauble.
3. figurative and extended uses denoting a person or thing regarded as inferior or of little importance.In some uses perhaps influenced by sense 7a.
a. derogatory. A religious practice, ceremony, object, etc., regarded as meaningless, worthless, or superstitious: (more generally) a superstitious belief, practice, etc. Cf. toy n. 4b, trinket n.1 3. Obsolete except as a specific use of sense 3d.Frequently used during the English Reformation by Protestant writers to refer to religious practices and objects associated with Roman Catholicism.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > superstition > [noun] > instance
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superstitiona1450
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1548 W. Turner New Dialogue Messe sig. B.viiv They must breake the hooste in .iii. partes..wyth all the other superstitions toyes and bables aboue rehersed.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 456 Their Agnus Dei, their graines of the Trinitie, and such other gaudes and bables.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cci. 628 All..in that Popedome..is but a confused hotchpotch of all maner of superstitions... What a thing is it if we shall now fashion our selues lyke vnto them, and suffer a sort of pelting bables or ceremonies to bee layd vppon vs?
1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript ii. i. sig. N5 If the salt fall toward them at table, Or any such like superstitious bable, Their mirth is spoild.
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ii. 42 Others..perswaded them not to suffer a new Tribunal to be erected, to bolster up the Romish bawbles, and the Spanish superstition.
1707 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. vii. 24 In Triumph, thus the Popish Bauble, Was carry'd by the scoundrel Rabble.
1927 Theosophy (Los Angeles) Dec. 91 One could wish that the Catholic Church had refrained from..hanging about his neck that bauble of meretricious superstition [sc. canonization].
b. A person regarded as of little importance or worth; (now usually) a person, esp. a woman, regarded as amusing or attractive but unimportant.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant
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pawnc1450
semi-cipher?1550
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Jack with the feather1581
nobody1583
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rush candle1628
niflec1635
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nonentity1710
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underscrub1822
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peanut1864
commonplacer1874
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Little Willie1901
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pie-biter1911
blob1916
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no-count1932
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Mickey Mouse1935
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non-person1959
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > puppet or toy
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1570 Tressoun of Dumbartane in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 171 But thow, vaine bable, bouistrit up in pryde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. i. 132 Thither comes this bauble, by this hand she fals thus about my neck. View more context for this quotation
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. xvii Nor can I bring him [sc. the Coxcomb] in without an Apology for interrupting my worthy Audience with a Bauble of his Nothingness.
1820 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 24 Oct. George of England must feel..how heartily despised and entirely useless a bauble he is.
1903 H. Clifford Free Lance of Today vi. 46 It is so delightful to find someone like yourself, who..sees in a woman an object worthy of worship, not a mere bauble, a plaything.
2003 H. Turtledove Jaws of Darkness (2004) 209 She was madly in love with Iskakis... She was just a bauble to him. And how will he use her, now?
c. A small or flimsy boat, esp. one considered likely to sink when bearing a heavy load or in rough seas. Cf. bauble boat at Compounds 1. Now rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel > small boat > and fragile
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walnut-shell1614
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wash-deck tub1878
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 36 Being doubtful how to carrie victuals for so long a time in such bables.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 27 His Shipping (Poore ignorant Baubles)..Like Egge-shels mou'd vpon their Surges, crack'd As easily 'gainst our Rockes. View more context for this quotation
1719 King of Pirates 79 We durst not put out to Sea in such a Bauble of a Boat as we had under us.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 168 It was impossible such a bawble as that could pass round Cape Horn.
1880 H. W. French Castle Foam vii. 58 She unbound a light canoe. The prince looked doubtfully at the frail bauble.
1983 N. Springer Golden Swan 8 He knew that cold, swelling, limitless expanse that surrounded Isle—and amidst all that vastness a speck, a floating cockleshell, a mere bauble of a boat, a coracle.
d. A matter or thing of little or no value or importance; a trifle. Also: something that is superficially appealing but of little or no intrinsic worth.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless
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yardc1400
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paltry?1566
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garbage1592
bag of winda1599
a cracked or slit groat1600
kitchen stuff1600
tilta1603
nothing?1608
bauble1609
countera1616
a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620
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1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus sig. B Young men and maides should be trayned vp in Musicke, not to the end their mindes might be incited to wantonnesse by those bawbles, which make Art to be so vilely reputed of: but [etc.].
1630 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent 13 The Spanish potato, he holds as a bable, and the Italian figge he esteemes as poyson.
1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus in Wks. (1731) I. 184 Of Figs..the White, the Blue, and the Tawny: The last is very small, bears ill, and I think but a Bawble.
1838 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. i. 29 The Right Honourable before my name is a bauble.
1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xiv. 195 Are all earthly joys, and honours, and pleasures a bauble, compared with..the splendours of immortality?
1950 H. M. Robinson Cardinal v. 562 The grandeur of earthly pomp, the gauds of fame, the baubles of power, and the transient adulation of men—all, all would vanish as a spark amid darkness.
2020 Scottish Daily Mail (Nexis) 17 Oct. 113 When other broadcasters saw Scottish football as a worthless bauble, Sky agreed to shell out £25 million per annum for the next five years.
4. slang. In plural. The testicles. Cf. ball n.1 12a, jewel n. 7.In quot. 1654 as part of an extended pun relating to procreation, and perhaps with a more general bawdy allusion to the male genitals; cf. sense 8.
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1654 Mercurius Fumigosus No. 27. 234 For shame Old-Cooks destroy not Eggs in bawbles, When the good souls do need them to make Cawdles.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Bawbels, or bawbles,..a man's testicles.
1971 R. M. Koster Prince (1979) xxxiv. 270 They tug the shorts under my butt, bunch in my baubles.
2000 P. Carey True Hist. Kelly Gang (2001) 44 I punched him in the bawbles.
a2007 J. Gardner Moriarty (2008) ix. 128 I'm to kick 'em in the baubles if they try anything on.
II. Senses referring to an instrument with a ball or mass of lead attached.
5. A spiked lead ball at the end of a scourge or whip; (also) a whip terminating in such an object or objects. Obsolete.
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c1390 Charter Abbey Holy Ghost (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 359 Þe Iewes..maden hem scorges wiþ babeles [a1450 Harl. 2406 balles] of led & scharpe prikkes on þe endes and beoten Cristes precious bodi þer-wiþ.
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 191 (MED) Eche scorge had viij babelys of leed on þe ende, & euery babyl was ful of scharp prekelys as it had ben þe rowelys of a spor.
c1450 (c1400) Vision of Tundale (Calig.) (1985) l. 519 Mony a þowsand deuelles full kene..hyede hem..Tho wrecched sowlus to bete & payne, Wyth brenn[ande] bables [1451 Royal babilles, a1500 Adv. baelys] on hem þey [d]onge.
6. An instrument for weighing or measuring (consisting of a stick with lead weights fixed or suspended at one end). Obsolete. [Bauble is here used to gloss Latin pegma (see quots. 1440, 1570) and Latin librilla (see quots. a1425, 1440). Classical Latin pegma denotes some kind of theatrical scaffolding (see pegma n.), but in post-classical Latin the word is also found in British glossarial sources from the 12th cent. denoting an instrument for measuring or weighing. Post-classical Latin librilla is attested from the 13th cent. denoting an instrument for measuring weight consisting of a stick with lead weights at one end (also 15th-cent. in a British glossarial source).]
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > other weighing apparatus
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a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 37v Librella, a bable.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 20 Babulle or bable [1499 Pynson babyll], librilla, pegma.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kiiiv/2 Bable, pegma.
III. A jester's staff, and related senses.Also more fully fool's bauble.
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a. A short staff carried by a fool or jester as a mock emblem of office. Cf. marotte n. 1. Now chiefly historical.A fool's bauble was typically adorned at the end with a miniature replica of a fool's head (sometimes with an ass's ears), or sometimes with a pouch or bladder filled with sand, dried peas, etc.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod > mock, as carried by jester
baublea1393
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester's bauble
baublea1393
marotte1611
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 3955 The kinges fol..that with his babil pleide.
a1500 Roberd of Cisyle (Cambr. Ff.2.38) (1879) l. 160 ‘Thou art a fole,’ seyde the aungell..‘Thy babull schall be thy dygnyte.’
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxix. 428 Fashioned like a fooles bable.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. i. 79 An ideot holds his bauble for a God. View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Fol If all fooles bables bore, wood would be very deere.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xiii. 326 The licensed jester..brandished his bauble.
1863 Archaeol. Jrnl. June 181 The head of a fool's marotte or bauble, of brass, with a long peaked hood attached.
1998 V. K. Janik Fools & Jesters in Lit., Art & Hist. 6 Holbein's fool wears a hood with ass's ears and bells and carries a bauble with a fool's head on its end.
2001 B. K. Otto Fools are Everywhere (2007) ii. 50 Nicolo becomes court jester to the new king, complete with cap and bauble.
b. As a metonym for foolishness in expressions indicating that a person has acted foolishly or been made to look a fool, e.g. to deserve the bauble, to give (a person) the bauble. Obsolete.Cf. to crown with a marotte at marotte n. 1.
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1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xliii Suche is a fole and well worthy a babyll.
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered v. 17 Not sparing the holy fathers of the Church..but giuing some the bable..befooling the penner of the Creede.
1606 J. Day Ile of Guls sig. H4 If in any thing your wits deserue the bable tis in that.
c. Used with contemptuous or dismissive reference to the ceremonial mace of the British House of Commons (cf. mace n.2 2a). Usually with reference or allusion to a reported use by Oliver Cromwell when dissolving the Rump Parliament; see quots. 1653, a1675.In some later uses probably influenced by sense 1a.
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1653 S. Mewce Let. 21 Apr. in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 7 The Generall [sc. Cromwell]..made a sharp speech..and then comanded that bable the mace to bee taken awaye.
a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1653 529/2 He [sc. Cromwell] bid one of his Soldiers to take away that fools bable, the Mace.
1836 C. MacFarlane Bk. Table-talk I. xlv. 254 However desirous any member may be to ask the prisoner a question, he cannot do so, because the mace is not on the table... The Speaker..is the only person allowed to speak when his bauble is away.
1845 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 77 859 The sooner some new Cromwell appears, and removes ‘that bauble’, and turns us all out, the better.
1988 Guardian (Nexis) 20 May Mr Brown..returned to Parliament yesterday after a 28-day suspension... He [had] picked up the mace and dropped it to the floor, denting it slightly... Mr Brown was unapologetic. ‘If that bauble or ornament is more important than all the struggle there is something wrong with this party.’
2019 @jeffsafc 28 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 19 Oct. 2021) Waiting for #BorisJohnson to throw the mace onto the floor and shout, ‘Away with this fool's bauble’.
8. slang. The penis. Obsolete.Usually punning on sense 7a, and sometimes alluding to the once popular idea (sometimes expressed as a proverb: see quots. 1633, 1749) that a man of impaired intelligence would have a larger penis than others.
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1593 Passionate Morrice sig. B3 He..was pleased by her, with wagging his bawble, and ringing his bell, while she pickt his pocket and cut his pursse... A prettie sleight of a slattering Slut.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 85 This driueling loue is like a great naturall, that runs vp and downe to hide his bable in a hole. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iv. 30 I would giue his wife my bauble sir to doe her seruice. View more context for this quotation
1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore i. sig. B4 They say a fooles bable is a Ladies playfellow.
1667 Ballad in J. H. Wilson Court Satires Restoration (1976) 11 Tom fool may thank G. for his bauble.
1707 Fifteen Plagues of Maiden-Head 8 Her Husband's bauble is so short, That when he Hunts, he never shews her Sport.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 189 It was full manifest that he inherited, and largely too, the prerogative of majesty, which distinguishes that otherwise most unfortunate condition, and gives rise to the vulgar saying, ‘That a fool's bauble is a lady's play-fellow’.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, designating something small, trifling, or insignificant. Esp. (and earliest) in bauble boat: a small or flimsy boat (cf. sense 3c, baubling adj. 1). Now rare.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 34 How many shallow bauble boates dare saile, Vpon her ancient brest.
1730 C. Coffey Female Parson ii. iii. 25 Have I thus long spent my Hopes in vain, put of from time to time with trifling Scruples of that Bauble Virtue, the foolish Niceness of your artful Sex?
1798 W. Cowper Poems: On Receipt Mother's Picture 5 Delighted with my bauble coach.
1816 T. Ashe Soldier of Fortune I. xxv. 237 Many bauble boats have courage to set their sails on a smooth ocean.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 47 Yonder bauble world Of silvered glass.
1932 G. L. Bickersteth tr. Dante Paradiso iii. xxiii. 205 No sea-way for a bauble-boat [It. picciola barca] is this cut by my daring keel.
C2.
bauble-bearer n. Obsolete a jester, a court fool (cf. sense 7a).
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1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 2656 in Wks. (1931) II. 250 Thir Iuglaris, Iestouris, and ydill hensouris, Thir cariowris, and thir quynte sensouris, Thir babill beraris, and thair bairdis.
1896 Godey's Mag. Mar. 299/1 History..is full of accounts of little folk who supplanted the court-jesters, and spoke with even more courage than the bauble-bearers.
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