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daubery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɔːbəɹi/

Etymology

From daub + -ery.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses.
   • She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
   • No one thought seriously of botany; it was a sort of fringe on the educational garment, pretty enough, but only adapted to girls to be taken as an accomplishment and classed with decorative daubery and other fancy work. 1907, Lucien Marcus Underwood, The progress of our knowledge of the Flora of North America:

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