DOUCE

Definition: DOUCE

DOUCE

Adjective

1. Sober; prudent; sedate; modest.

2. Sweet; pleasant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DOUCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Douce \Douce\, adjective. [French expression doux, masculine, douce, feminine, sweet, from the Latin expression duleis sweet.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: DOUCE

French (fresh, suave).

Au théâtre ce soir: Folie douce (1973)

La Pente douce (1972)

Douce est la revanche (1972)

Irma la Douce (1972)

Une femme douce (1969)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Flore Pratique Des Algues D'Eau Douce de Belgique (reference)

• Les Algues Deau Douce Initiation a LA Systematique: Algues Jaunes Et Brunes (reference)

• Principes de la flûte traversière, ou flûte d'Allemagne, de la flûte à bec, ou flûte douce, et du haut-bois. Divisez par traitez (reference)

• The awntyrs off Arthure at the terne Wathelyn : an edition based on Bodleian Library ms Douce 324 (reference)

• The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist Iv, a Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleiam Library, Oxford (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Irma La Douce (reference)

• Voyage En Douce (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Irma La Douce (1960 Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Fra. Douce, M.D. / William Keable Pinxt Jas. McArdell Fecit. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Emprunt National 1918. Société Générale, pour nous rendre entiére la douce terre de France. Credit: Library of Congress.

Emprunt National 1918. Société Générale, pour nous rendre entiére la douce terre de France. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Bulgarian 

Спокоен (Pacific). (various references)

Czech

Střízlivý (cold, down to earth, hard-headed, sober, sober minded). (various references)

Farsi 

متین (Demure, Placid, Sedate, Serene, Sober), مطبوع (Dainty, Exquisite, Fun, Graceful, Handsome, Lief, Proper, Scrumptious, Sweet, Toothsome), ارام (Bland, Calm, Daft, Gentle, Hush, Imperturbable, Moderate, Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, Placid, Quiet, Sedate, Serene, Silent, Staid, Taciturn, Tranquil, Unblenched, Unruffled, Whist). (various references)

Hungarian

Józan (advised, clear-headed, discrimination, down to earth, hard-headed, judicious, moderate, philosophic, philosophical, sane, sensible, sober, sound, steady). (various references)

Pig Latin

ouceday

Portuguese

suave (bland, creamy, delicate, downy, dulcet, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambent, lamblike, lenient, meek, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, piano, placable, pleasant, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, suave, sweet, tender), calmo (calm, collected, composed, cool, cool-headed, dispassionate, even, even-minded, halcyon, half-light, imperturbable, irresponsive, leisurely, mild, noiseless, passionless, peaceable, peaceful, peace-loving, philosophic, philosophical, phlegmatic, placable, placid, plodder, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, sedate, self-collected, sequestered, serene, smooth, sober, sober-blooded, staid, still, stilly, tranquil, uneventful, unprovoked, unruffled, unstirred, untroubled). (various references)

Russian 

Спокойный (Pacific). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tih (halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, stealthy, still, stilly), skroman (diffident, frugal, humble, modest, retiring, self-effacing, unassuming, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious), miran (calm, composed, halcyon, orderly, peaceful, placid, quiet, reposeful, restful, smooth, still, stilly, tranquil). (various references)

Turkish

Nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, mild, obliging, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, urbane, well disposed), Kibar (aristocratic, aristocratical, attentive, blancmange, bland, chivalrous, civil, civilized, courteous, courtly, distingue, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, kid glove, mild, nice, parliamentary, polished, polite, refined, sharp, urbane, well born, well disposed, well mannered). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dịu d� ng điềm đạm, êm dịu (balmily, liquid). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "DOUCE": doucely, douceur, douceurs. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coude.

-1 letter: code, coed, cued, deco, duce.

-2 letters: cod, cud, cue, doc, doe, due, duo, ecu, ode, oud, udo.

-3 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe.

+1 letter: couped, douche, escudo, ouched.

+2 letters: becloud, bounced, buncoed, choused, clouded, cloured, clouted, collude, conduce, couched, coughed, counted, coupled, coursed, courted, couvade, crunode, debouch, decorum, defocus, doucely, douceur, douched, douches, eductor, escudos, focused, geoduck, hocused, jounced, loculed, mouched, occlude, pouched, pounced, produce, scoured, scouted, sourced, subcode, touched, uncoded, vouched.

+3 letters: aeroduct, autocade, avouched, beclouds, caroused, chorused, closured, clotured, cloudier, cloudlet, clupeoid, coendure, colluded, colluder, colludes, coloured, columned, communed, commuted, computed, conclude, conduced, conducer, conduces, confused, confuted, conjured, consumed, contused, cornuted, costumed, couldest, couvades, crouched, crunodes, cuckooed, cupolaed, custodes, debouche, decolour, decorous, decorums, decouple, decurion, denounce, diecious, document, douceurs, duecento, edacious, educator, eduction, eductors, enounced, flounced, focussed, frounced, geoducks, grouched, hocussed, icebound, lodicule, nucleoid, obscured, occluded, occludes, occulted, occupied, occurred, octupled, outacted, outchide, outcried, outdance, outfaced, outpaced, outraced, procured, produced, producer, produces, recouped, reductor, scourged, scrouged, slouched, stuccoed, subcodes, succored, trounced, unchoked, unclosed, uncloyed, uncoated, uncocked, uncoiled, uncoined, uncombed, uncooked, uncooled, uncorked, undocile, undocked, unforced, unlocked, unvoiced, upcoiled.

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