douceur
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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 was at this time talking with the clergyman, and presenting him with a handsome douceur for his trouble; but perceiving her to open the certificate, I watched her countenance.
From The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago by Frederick Marryat
Hastening to free our impatient horses from their thraldom, we mounted them, and—not forgetting a suitable douceur, by way of "a consideration" to our obliging cicerone—spurred for the city.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Joseph Holt Ingraham
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
Le Tellier told her cousin, Bussy-Rabutin, that the King liked her letters,—"very different," he said, "from the douceurs fades"—the insipid sweet things—"of the other feminine scribes."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
These are the douceurs by which we are invited to Regicide fraternity and friendship.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
When high posts were not sold, they were given as douceurs to men of local influence, whose rebellion was dreaded.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
The Governor farms the place from the Porte: he may do what he pleases as long as he pays his rent with punctuality and provides presents and douceurs for the Pasha of Mocha.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
