What does daubery mean?
Daubery means A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses..
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/ˈdɔːbəɹi/ · noun
A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses..
She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.
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.
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Daubery means A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses..
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She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.
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