Douce vs Douche - What's the difference?
douce | douche |
(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:
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 145:
* 1996 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘The Story of a Recluse’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 271:
A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for vaginal irrigation.
Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.
(slang, derogatory) A contemptible person; a worthless, brainless or disgusting person.
To use a douche.
As an adjective douce
is sweet, nice, pleasant.As a noun douche is
a jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for vaginal irrigation.As a verb douche is
to use a douche.douce
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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?
- 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.
- 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?