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Dulce vs Dulse - What's the difference?

dulce | dulse |

As nouns the difference between dulce and dulse

is that dulce is sweetness while dulse is a seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.

As a verb dulce

is to make sweet; to soothe.

dulce

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) sweetness
  • seaweed, kelp

    • Verb

    (dulc)
  • (obsolete) To make sweet; to soothe.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    dulse

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dillisk * dilsk

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata ) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
  • * 1997 , ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 151:
    • Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse , it makes you even thirstier.’
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, page 90:
    • They worked together on their father's patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; [...] but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation.

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