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douce | douc |

As an adjective douce

is (obsolete) sweet, nice, pleasant.

As a noun douc is

a species of colobine old world monkey, making up the genus pygathrix .

douce

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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 ----

    douc

    English

    (wikipedia douc) (Pygathrix)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A species of colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix

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