douceur

Nonetheless, an otherwise rollicking chapter on the Frankfurt Book Fair gradually saddens into an elegy for the douceur de vivre before the Revolution.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2015

The collections ranged from 18th-century douceur de vivre to 20th-century avant-garde, prompting the childless Doucet to observe, "I was successively my grandfather, my father, my son, and my grandson."

From Architectural Digest ● Aug. 27, 2014

Thus buttressed by a professional support-group, the bereaved writer projects his or her mask of mourning into the public domain and can expect to be treated with a kind of 19th-century douceur.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2011

I could see that the fellow was just sullen under the too free and easy assumptions of a guest from whom little had been experienced in the way of an occasional douceur.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry

Irritable as he was, he used to call the people cheats, an appellation which had often to be atoned for by a douceur to the waiters.

From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton

His douceurs were nought but such as an artillery marshal might declaim.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Henceforth, Philip explained to him, there must be no more clandestine douceurs from tyre-agents, no more strictly private rebates on consignments of petrol, and no more piling-up of unconsidered trifles in customers' bills.

From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian

Allowing for an additional three thousand francs for railway travelling and sundry expenses, I fail to see how the remainder of the sum was disbursed, unless it was in douceurs to the performers.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

It is possible that some of the douceurs given to the possessors by his original proposal were not really in accordance with his own judgment.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

"La migraine ne se guérit avec les douceurs," said Mr. Carleton entering;—"try something sharp, Miss Evelyn."

From Queechy by Warner, Susan