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Definition of 'douce'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
(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?
Derived terms
* doucely
* douceness
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