Lexicographical Neighbors of Babooneries
Literary usage of Babooneries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages: A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison (1908)
"... with three buttresses and three bosses of mother of pearl . . . and an ewer, .
. . partly enamelled with divers babooneries " — a delightful expression! ..."
2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"It behoves, however, those who seriously desire the political amelioration of
their sect publicly to shake off all participation in such babooneries—it they ..."
3. The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South by Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1852)
"... ascribed to Justin, and in the pages of the earlier apologists; whilst the
solemn babooneries and elaborate pedantries of Herbert of Cherbury, ..."
4. The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick, of Slickville. To by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1839)
"... and putting the parts together, with a great many flourishes, and a lot of
babooneries, wellin' the threaded ends in his mouth, and forcin' them loge- ..."
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