babees

Updated: March 25, 2026

Early English books on table manners, such as "The Babees Boke" and "The Boke of Nurture," though minute in detail, yet name no other table-furniture than cups, chafing-dishes, chargers, trenchers, salt-cellars, knives, and spoons.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England