douceur

Example Sentences

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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

Car la manne descendi Et douceur aussi, Par quoi m'ame saoulee Fu dou fruit de Dous ottri, Que Pite cueilli En sa face coulouree.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

Besides, that isn’t for boat hire, nor yourself; only a little douceur, by way of present to the good dame inside the cottage—asleep, I take it.”

From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne