douce
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English douce, from Old French dolz, dous, Middle French doux, douce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”).
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Adjective[edit]
douce (comparative more douce, superlative most douce)
- (obsolete) Sweet; nice; pleasant.
- (dialect) Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
- 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop[1], New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 242:
- The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 27:
- what would you say of a man with plenty of silver that bided all by his lone and made his own bed and did his own baking when he might have had a wife to make him douce and brave?
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 145:
- If Fabre, for example, were elected to the Academy tomorrow, you would see his lust for social revolution turning overnight into the most douce and debonair conformity.
- 1996, Alasdair Gray, “The Story of a Recluse”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 271:
- So what strong lord of misrule can preside in this douce, commercially respectable, late 19th century city where even religious fanaticism reinforces un adventurous mediocrity?
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
douce
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Middle English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French dous, dolz, douce, from Latin dulcem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
douce
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “dǒuce, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.
Noun[edit]
douce
References[edit]
- “dǒuce, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.
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