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douce

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5 lettersPronunciation /duːs/Sorted cdeouStarts with DEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Sweet; nice; pleasant.

Word origin

From Middle English douce, from Old French dolz, dous, Middle French doux, douce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). Doublet of dolce, doux, and dulce.

Used in a sentence

  • Beyond the bed stood the woman. Dark and pale, aged about twenty-one . . . his mother, Mary de Bohun. Death had stolen none of her douce beauty and sweetness.
  • The sun broke through the cloods, and the douce song o’ a laverock filled me wi’ gledness.
  • The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner.

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