† ˈcamoised, a. Obs.
Also 4–5 camused, 6 camesyd, camoused, cammoised, cammosed, 7 camus'd, -oysed.
[f. camois + -ed.]
Made camois; having a camois nose.
| 1393 Gower Conf. II. 210 Some one, for she is noble of kinne..Some one, for that she is camused. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon xxxiii. 103 Grete eeres and a camesyd nose. 1583 Stanyhurst Poems (Arb.) 141 This slut with a cammoysed haucks nose. c 1600 Montgomerie Flyting 472 That cammosed [ed. 1688 camnosed] cocatrice they quite with them carie. 1625 Lisle Du Bartas, Noe 11 Camoysed dolphins. 1637 B. Jonson Sad Sheph. ii. i. 49 Though my nase be camus'd, my lipps thick, And my chin bristled! 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. vii. 82 All children are a little camoised about the Nose, before the bridge riseth. |