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Definition of Bawbles
1. bawble [n] - See also: bawble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bawbles
Literary usage of Bawbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Or, The Muses Recreation. Containing Severall by Sir John Mennes, James Smith, Thomas Park, Edward Du Bois (1817)
"... Heers childrens bawbles and n,ons too, To play with for delight. Heer's round-heads
when turn'd every way At length will stand upright. Come ladds, &c. ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"But when they stripped him of his ornaments It was the bawbles lost their grace
... The bawbles were well gone. He stood the more a king, when bared to man. ..."
3. Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Studies in Their Works by Henry Houston Bonnell (1902)
"But when they stripped him of his ornaments It was the bawbles lost their grace,
... The bawbles were well gone. He stood the more a king when bared to man. ..."
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