douce
adjective
sedate; modest; quiet.
doucely
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a word derived from
douce.
Example Sentences
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He bestowed a paternal kiss on her brow, and glided doucely away before she could possibly cry again.
From A Simpleton by Charles Reade
She is a well-faur'd lassie as ony i' the realm, and answers decorously and doucely.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
"Yet aft a ragged cowte's been known To mak a noble aiver; So, ye may doucely fill a throne, For a' their clish-ma-claver."
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
George the Fort' didna fill the throne verra doucely for a' their clishmaclaver, and I don't think young Gourlay'll fill the pulpit verra doucely for a' ours.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
An' day an' nicht, frae daw to daw, Dink an' perjink an' doucely braw, Wi' a kind o' Gospel ower a', May or October, Like Peden, followin' the Law An' no that sober.
From New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
