Meaning of daubery | Babel Free

Definitions

A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level