cloysome
English
Etymology
From cloy + -some.
Adjective
cloysome (comparative more cloysome, superlative most cloysome)
- Cloying.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, I.42:
- Feasts, banquets, revels, dancings, masks and turneys, rejoyce them that but seldome see them, and that have much desired to see them: the taste of which becommeth cloysome and unpleasing to those that daily see, and ordinarily have them […].
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