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
The allusion in the close of the letter appears to be to a douceur which it was intended to present to the secretary.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
"S'il est une petite ville au monde o� l'on go�te la douceur de la vie dans un commerce agr�able et s�r, c'est Chamb�ry."
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
