juvenalia en · NOUN
Etymology
From juven(ile) + -alia.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only, qualifier:antiques and collectibles) Items connected with children, such as toys, dolls, teddy bears, etc.
But enough nurse-angel pins, scrubs imprinted with hearts and teddy bears, coffee cups bearing cute child-nurse images and stuffed animals representing nurses show up in the nursing workplace to keep the juvenalia market alive.
2013, Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon, “The Daisy Dilemma” (chapter 2), Silent No More (Part 1), in From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, third edition, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: ILR Press, →ISBN, Nurses' Juvenalia Problem, page 34:Ed is the resident Toys, Trains and Juvenalia Specialist for the auctioneer.
2026 March 27, Ella Rayment-Ward, “Bargain Hunt's James Lewis on 'love at first sight' with new husband - who his daughter approves of”, in HELLO!, →ISSN, →OCLC, TV and Film:[…]– Peter’s love for juvenalia, primarily toy theatres. He adored them, he collected them and he even had a shop in London’s Covent Garden selling them.
2018 June 8 [2018 March 31], “Actor Peter Baldwin's toy theatres up for auction”, in SussexWorld, Iconic Media Group:
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(alt-of, misspelling, plural, plural-only) Misspelling of juvenilia.
alt of juvenilia
Lewis Foreman actually catalogues Bax's early works under the heading “juvenilia,” separate from the main body of Bax's works. A similar approach is adopted for Enescu (1881—1955) by Noel Malcolm, who arbitrarily deems “juvenalia” to be between all of Enescu's works written before 1895, plus all those written between 1895 and 1900 that are still unpublished. Enrique Alberto Arias does not actually use the term “juvenilia” for Tcherepnin's early works,[…].
2009, Barry Cooper, “The Marginalization of Children's Compositions of the Past” (chapter 3), Overview (Part 1), in Child Composers and Their Works: A Historical Survey, Lanham, Maryland; Toronto; Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 28:All his previous compositions he now considered juvenalia or wrong starts buried too deeply in the harmonies of hyperromanticism.
1982 February, “Carl Orff”, in Wilmot Robertson [pseudonym; John Humphrey Ireland], editor, Instauration, volume 7, number 3, Cape Canaveral, FL: Howard Allen Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:Composers like Debussy seem to have forgotten their juvenalia or else underestimated the zeal of modern musicology.
1995 January 10, Bernard Holland, “Music Review: Oh, When Debussy and Berg Were Mere Youths!”, in The New York Times (C section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015, page 11:Sir, I quite agree with Professor Ricks of Boston University (report. July 7) that the unpublished early poems of T. S. Eliot should not be dismissed as “juvenalia” (sic).
1993 July 7, Hillary Sternberg, “Letters to the Editor: Cats' cradle?”, in The Times, number 64,692, London: News UK, published 9 July 1993, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17: