douceurs

Salmon salad, Gervais cheese, cold tongue, nice cake and paté douceurs such as only the French can make, gave us a charming lunch, finished with wine.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

Terms & Expressions: les douceurs du bercail = home sweet home bercail pour agneaux = sheepfold, sheep pen rentrer au bercail = to come back to the fold (politician), to return to the fold

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Terms & Expressions: les douceurs du bercail = home sweet home bercail pour agneaux = sheepfold, sheep pen rentrer au bercail = to come back to the fold (politician), to return to the fold

bercail - French Word-A-Day 2007

Terms & Expressions: les douceurs du bercail = home sweet home bercail pour agneaux = sheepfold, sheep pen rentrer au bercail = to come back to the fold (politician), to return to the fold

French Word-A-Day: 2007

When officers commanding regiments in India contracted for clothing the men, they found these douceurs under their dinner-napkins.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Without such douceurs, it is popularly said and believed, no stone walls could enable a Turk to hold Al-Hijaz against the hill-men.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Porte: he may do what he pleases as long as he pays his rent with punctuality and provides presents and douceurs for the

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

When Adams sent three ministers to Paris to negotiate, including Gerry, the Directory insulted them and tried to extort douceurs —bribes—from them.

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

I have tried to make it clear that this price would be very high to myself as a Western intellectual, but much lower for a people who had never known the douceurs so important to myself and who enjoyed the morale and material security of a restructured society.

An Exchange on The Human Prospect Olson, Robert L. 1974

But, Monsieur Y was careful to insist, the loan and the private gift of douceurs must be considered separate matters and must be kept so.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968