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douce
/duːs/
adj 2
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4ADJ.
brave, most
VERB + DOUCE
make
DOUCE + NOUN
conformity, debonair, man
PREP.
into
Definitions
adj
1
Sweet; nice; pleasant.
2
Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner.
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?
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The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner.
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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?
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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.
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