Bartholomew baby

== English == === Etymology === From Bartholomew (“because they were sold at Bartholomew Fair in London”) +‎ baby (“doll”). === Noun === Bartholomew baby (plural Bartholomew babies) (historical) A wooden doll, generally without arms or joints, painted and dressed in current fashions. Synonym: Bartlemy baby 1667, Roger L'Estrange (translator), The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, London: H. Herringman, The Fifth Vision of the World, p. 162,[1] For He could neither Bow, nor move his Hat to any man that saluted him: No, nor so much as turn from One side to the Other; but sate as if He had been Box’d up, like a Bartlemy-Baby. 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, The Epistle to all Young Maidens,[2] For there is no Sober, Honest, and Discreet man, but will make choice of one, that hath Gained the Reputation of a Good and Complete Servant, for his Wife, rather than one who can do nothing but Trick up her self fine, and like a Bartholomew Baby is fit for nothing else but to be looked upon.