babery
Finery of a kind to please a child.
Noun
- Finery of a kind to please a child.
obsolete
- So have I seen trim books in velvet dight, / With golden leaves, and painted babery / Of silly boys, please unacquainted sight. - 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
Origin
Perhaps originally for baboonery. Compare baboon, and also babe.