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bar-THAWL-uh-myoo BAY-bee
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cheap and tawdry dress
1682The Greatness of the SoulAs, if it be the lust of uncleanness, then is the motion to sin drest up in all the imaginable pleasurableness of that sin; if to covetousness, then is the sin drest up in the profits and honours that attend that sin; and so of theft and the like; but if the motion be to swear, hector, or the like, then is that motion drest up with valour and manliness; and so you may count of the rest of sinful motions; and thus being trimmed up like a Bartholomew baby, it is presented to all the rest of the powers of the soul, where with joint consent it is admired and embraced, to the firing and inflaming all the powers of the soul.1682The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married CoupleYea, and here she shews you, that though before she was but a Bartholomew Baby, that she is now grown to be a brave houswife.1785A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar TongueBARTHOLOMEW BABY. A person dressed up in a tawdry manner, like the dolls or babies sold at Bartholomew fair.Labels: A. Marsh, Francis Grose, John Bunyan
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