daubery

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses.

   “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.”