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▪ I. doucet, dowset|ˈduːsɪt, ˈdaʊsɪt|
Forms: α. 5 doucete, dowcete, -ced, -sete, 5–7 dou-, dowcette, doucet, 6–9 dowset, 7 douset, dowcet, -sett, dowlcet, doulcet. β. 5 dulset, 6 dulcet.
[a. F. doucet, doucette, dim. of doux, douce sweet; also n. a sweet variety of grape, of apple, etc., and in other senses. See also dulcet.]
†1. A sweet dish, in old cookery. Obs.
c1430Two Cookery-bks. 55 Doucettes. Take Porke..& Eyroun..& melle hem to-gederys with Hony & Pepir, & bake hem in a cofyn. 1467Mann. & Househ. Exp. 399 For viij. boshelles of flour for dowsetes. 1530Palsgr. 215/1 Dousette a lytell flawne, dariolle. 1593Drayton Eclogues ix. 47 Fresh Cheese, and Dowsets, Curds and clowted Creame. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. ii. (1668) 75 An excellent Custard or Dowset. 1640King & Poor North. Man (N.), Heer's dousets and flapjacks.
†2. A wind instrument resembling a flute. Obs.
αc1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 131 That craftely begunne to pipe Bothe in doucet and in riede. c1430Lydg. Reason & Sensual., Trumpes and trumpettes, Lowde shallys and doucettes.
βc1450Holland Howlat 762 The dulset, the dulsacordis, the schalme of assay.
3. Hunting. (pl.) The testicles of a deer.
a1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster iv. ii, He was there at the fall of a deer, and would needs..give ten groats for the dowcets. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 93 Dewclawes, and Dowlcets. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. i. vi, All the sweet morsels call'd tongue, ears, and dowcets. 1638Ford Fancies i. ii. Wks. 1869 II. 234, I am made a gelding, and, like a tame buck, have lost my dowsets. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Doulcets, the stones of a Hart or Stag. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 255 Red and fallow deer, whose doucets if taken away..before they have hornes, will never have any at all. 1826Scott Woodst. iii, Broiling the umbles, or dowsets, of the deer, upon the glowing embers, with their own royal hands.
▪ II. doucet
early form of dulcet. |