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
M.P., who in return sent the author a douceur of £60.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John
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
