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noun

Babe n.

An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

A doll for children.

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Etymology of 'Babe'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Babe" Quotes from Famous Books

... is that my babe was born, —Better than born, baptised and hid away Before this happened, safe from being hurt! That had been sin God could not well forgive: He was too young to smile ...

— Life of Robert Browning • William Sharp

... our house and harm, For trouble comes full fleet. I hold the babe close in my arm; The fairy ...

— The Story and Song of Black Roderick • Dora Sigerson

... dream; for an hour later you might have seen a manly form sitting in that selfsame place, bearing in his arms a pale figure which he cherished as tenderly as a mother her babe. And they were talking together,—talking in low tones; and in all this wide universe neither of them knew or felt anything but the great joy of being thus ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various

... was circled With a little lily shroud; And a soul from sunny features Like a beam of light had fled: Before her, like a snowdrop, Her miracle lay dead! Ah! 'Twas cruel thus to chasten, Though her loss was darling's gain: And her heart would rifle Heaven Could she clasp her babe again. ...

— The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses • J. C. Manning

... separation was very great, but both knew that in France there was no present opening for his talents, and both were agreed that their separation should not be for long. And, indeed, before the end of the year, Madame de Hell clasped her babe to her bosom, and set out to join ...

— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

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