douce
/duːs
/adjective chiefly Scottish
Sober and sedate: stories which would have outraged their douce minds...
- In douce Edinburgh, though, I noted the reason that betting shops will never go away: two grown men roaring at the screen as their fancies competed in a race 400 miles away.
- In the douce world of English cricket, mind you, a raised eyebrow or overly-penetrating stare at an umpire can invoke disgusted letters to the broadsheets.
- Filled with almost 300 neo-classical monuments, it is avowedly anti-modernist, its douce landscape and harmonious architecture luring in the audience before hitting them with unexpected, pithy punchlines.
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'pleasant, sweet'): from Old French dous, douce, from Latin dulcis 'sweet'.
Rhymes
- mother's pet
- mother's ruin
- mother's side
- mother's son
- mother-substitute
- Mothers' Union
- Mother's Union
- Mother Superior
- mother surrogate
- mother-symbol
- mother tincture
- mother-to-be
- mother tongue
- mother wasp
- Motherwell, Robert
- motherwise
- mother wit
- motherwort
- mothery
- mother yaw
- mother–child
- mother–daughter
- mother–son
- moth fly
- moth hawk