cloysome

English

Etymology

From cloy +‎ -some.

Adjective

cloysome (comparative more cloysome, superlative most cloysome)

1. Cloying.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: [...] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , 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 […].