Explore Douce through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Douce meaning
- Sweet; nice; pleasant.
- Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
Using Douce
- The main meaning on this page is: Sweet; nice; pleasant. | Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
Context around Douce
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Douce
- In this selection, "douce" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, luikin, francis, mer, collection and ivresse stand out and add context to how "douce" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include barcelona and douce i countess and hoose luikin douce an content. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "douce" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with douce
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Events * 1112 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona and Douce I, Countess of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. (22 words)
Previn earned four Academy Awards for his scoring of musical adaptations ("My Fair Lady," "Porgy and Bess" and "Irma la Douce") and original movie musicals ("Gigi"). (26 words)
Chapter 1, p. 8 The French, the first European visitors to the region, often referred to Lake Huron as La Mer Douce, "the fresh-water sea". (26 words)
Csakan The csakan (from Hung. csákány "pickaxe"), also known by the recorder's old french name flute douce, was a duct flute in the shape of a walking stick or oboe popular in Vienna from about 1800 to the 1840s. (40 words)
A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark. (33 words)
There’s ae totie wee black an white photie o ma mum wi her weans sitting on a blanket on the front green o the hoose luikin douce an content. (30 words)
Example sentences (7)
There’s ae totie wee black an white photie o ma mum wi her weans sitting on a blanket on the front green o the hoose luikin douce an content.
Previn earned four Academy Awards for his scoring of musical adaptations ("My Fair Lady," "Porgy and Bess" and "Irma la Douce") and original movie musicals ("Gigi").
A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark.
As she is almost reconciled to her fate, she hears martial music, and is joyously happy: (Cabaletta: Oh! transport! oh! douce ivresse / "Oh bliss! oh ectasy!") and the Regiment arrives.
Chapter 1, p. 8 The French, the first European visitors to the region, often referred to Lake Huron as La Mer Douce, "the fresh-water sea".
Csakan The csakan (from Hung. csákány "pickaxe"), also known by the recorder's old french name flute douce, was a duct flute in the shape of a walking stick or oboe popular in Vienna from about 1800 to the 1840s.
Events * 1112 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona and Douce I, Countess of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.