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Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:01:06

Bab"er*y (?), n. [Perh. orig. for baboonery. Cf. Baboon, and also Babe.]

Finery of a kind to please a child.

[Obs.] "Painted babery."

Sir P. Sidney.

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