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Douce
Douce
,Adj.
[F.
doux
, masc., douce
, fem., sweet, fr. L. duleis
sweet.] 1.
Sweet; pleasant.
[Obs.]
2.
Sober; prudent; sedate; modest.
[Scot.]
And this is a
douce
, honest man. Sir W. Scott.
Definition 2024
douce
douce
English
Adjective
douce (comparative more douce, superlative most douce)
- (obsolete) Sweet, nice, pleasant.
- (dialect) Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 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 2007, p. 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’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), p. 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?
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 27:
Derived terms
- doucely
- douceness