douce

Adjective

Meaning

Sweet; pleasant.

Sober; prudent; sedate; modest.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

down-to-earth level controlled DRY logical conservative moderate grave clean continent earnest dignified dispassionate doss factual
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Antonyms

astringent three sheets to the wind drunk as a lord three sheets in the wind four sheets to the wind four sheets in the wind
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Related terms

powder-douce flute-douce

Phrases with the word

flute-douce

Examples

A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark. Source: Internet

As she is almost reconciled to her fate, she hears martial music, and is joyously happy: (Cabaletta: Oh! transport! oh! douce ivresse / "Oh bliss! oh ectasy!") and the Regiment arrives. Source: Internet

Csakan The csakan (from Hung. csákány "pickaxe"), also known by the recorder's old french name flute douce, was a duct flute in the shape of a walking stick or oboe popular in Vienna from about 1800 to the 1840s. Source: Internet

Chapter 1, p. 8 The French, the first European visitors to the region, often referred to Lake Huron as La Mer Douce, "the fresh-water sea". Source: Internet

Events * 1112 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona and Douce I, Countess of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

doubtworthy doubty douc doucely douceness doucepere