[F. bizarrerie.] Bizarre quality.
1741–70. Lett. Mrs. Carter (1808), 207. The bizarreries which arise from the mixture of good and bad which makes up the composition of most folks.
1828. Scott, Tapestr. Chamber. Rich in all the bizarrerie of the Elizabethan school.
1844. For. Q. Rev., XXXIII. 60. Bizarreries.
1858. Bagehot, Lit. Studies, II. 194. The bizarrerie of Mr. Dickens’s genius.
