† ˈbaublery Obs.
In 6 bablerie, babelerie, babelry.
[f. as prec. + -ry.]
Childish foolery, trifling business. See also babblery, babery, baboonery, all liable to contact of form and sense.
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1877) 81 These new toyes..fond deuyces and childish babelries (new fashions I should say). Ibid. (1595) M ij b, Papers, wherein is painted some babelerie or other of imagerie worke, and these they call my Lord of Misrule's badges. [See also babblery.] |