"douce" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Doublet of dolce, doux, and dulce",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English douce, from Old French dolz, dous, Middle French doux, douce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). Doublet of dolce, doux, and dulce.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more douce",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most douce",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "word": "powder-douce"
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        "Sweet; nice; pleasant."
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          "nice",
          "nice"
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          "pleasant",
          "pleasant"
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        "(obsolete) Sweet; nice; pleasant."
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        {
          "ref": "1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 242:",
          "text": "The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 27:",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 145:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Alasdair Gray, “The Story of a Recluse”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 271:",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober."
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          "steady",
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        "(dialect) Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober."
      ],
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    "Rhymes:English/uːs",
    "Rhymes:English/uːs/1 syllable",
    "enm:Love",
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      "word": "doucely"
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      "word": "douceness"
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      "name": "dbt"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English douce, from Old French dolz, dous, Middle French doux, douce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). Doublet of dolce, doux, and dulce.",
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    {
      "form": "more douce",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most douce",
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        "Sweet; nice; pleasant."
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        "(obsolete) Sweet; nice; pleasant."
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          "text": "The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 27:",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 145:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Alasdair Gray, “The Story of a Recluse”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 271:",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quote"
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          "steady"
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        [
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        "(dialect) Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober."
      ],
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        "dialectal"
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    }
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