Obs. In 6 bablerie, babelerie, babelry. [f. as prec. + -RY.] Childish foolery, trifling business. See also BABBLERY, BABERY, BABOONERY, all liable to contact of form and sense.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus. (1877), 81. These new toyes … fond deuyces and childish babelries (new fashions I should say). Ibid. (1595), M ij b. Papers, wherein is painted some babelerie or other of imagerie worke, and these they call my Lord of Misrule’s badges. [See also BABBLERY.]
