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douceur

douceur noun: sweetness of manner: agreeableness, gentleness.

Noun

douceur (countable and uncountable, plural douceurs)

  1. Sweetness of manner: agreeableness, gentleness.
  2. (obsolete) Sweet speech: a compliment.
    Synonyms:
    praise
  3. A sweetener: a gift offered to sweeten another's attitude, a tip or bribe.
    • When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of chucking it from him, as though it were literally a satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and...1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
    Synonyms:
    gift
  4. (UK) A tax break provided as an inducement to sell valuable items (especially art) to public collections rather than on the open market.

douceur meaning in Telugu

douceur in Telugu

douceur
దలాలీ dalālī

Synonyms of douceur

Forms of douceur

pluraldouceurs

Origin of douceur

Borrowed from French douceur (“sweetness”), from Old French dolçor, dulcur, etc., from Latin dulcōr + -em, from dulcis (“sweet”). Naturalized in Middle English as douceoure, dousour but treated as a French loanword from the 17th century onward. Doublet of dulcour.

Questions about douceur

What does douceur mean?
Douceur means sweetness of manner: agreeableness, gentleness.
What is douceur in Telugu?
Douceur in Telugu is దలాలీ (dalālī). See Douceur meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is douceur?
Douceur is a noun.
What is the plural of douceur?
The plural of douceur is douceurs.

Words near douceur in the dictionary

  1. doucest
  2. doucet
  3. doucets
  4. doucette
  5. Doucettes
  6. douceur
  7. douceurs
  8. douche
  9. douche bag
  10. douche bags
  11. douche boat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: douceur (page history and authors); దలాలీ (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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