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Definition of Cloys
1. cloy [v] - See also: cloy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloys
Literary usage of Cloys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Arnold's verse resembles a crystal cup of some choice liquor, fit for the banquets
of Olympus, one sip of which delights, but which never cloys or ..."
2. Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think by Charles Caleb Colton (1837)
"... This is that beauty which nevei cloys, possessing charms as resistless as
those of the fascinating Egyptian, for which Anthony wisely paid the bauble of ..."
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