selcouth

adjective / sel-kooth / selcouthly

(Atmospheric) has a vague but indefinable familiarity; not clearly evident or well known; possibly even silly in nature

“ffor sothe I sagh neuer sich a sight

In no-kyns land;

A starne thus, aboute mydnyght,

so bright shynand.

It gyfys more light it self alone

Then any son that euer shone,

Or mone, when he of son has ton

his light so cleyn;

Sich selcouth sight haue I sene none,

what so euer it meyn.”

The Towneley plays (The Offering of the Magi)