Crossword-Solution: DOUCEUR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Douceur | n. | Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. |
| Douceur | n. | A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe. |
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| French tip | 1 answer |
| tip French | 1 answer |
| Gratuity | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DOUCEUR (5)
Even Abou Hassan, the most disinterested of all viceroys, forgot not, during his caliphate of one day, to send a douceur of one thousand pieces of gold to his own household; and the Scottish vicegerents, raised to power by the strength of their faction, failed not to embrace the same means of rewarding them.
The postilions, stimulated by a promise of a princely DOUCEUR, drove rapidly along over a well-kept road.
She saw him place it in the network, and touch his cap as he received his _douceur_ from the passenger who sat at the door with an evening paper in his hand.
Indeed, on one occasion when I was first introduced into the family of a respectable citizen and shown into my bedroom, I mistook one of the two females who were making the bed for the servant, and was surprised to see her hand a little douceur I gave her as an earnest of attention on her part to the other, with a smile.
There is a French proverb which says that, "LES HOMMES SE PRENNENT PAR LA DOUCEUR," and a coarser English one, to the effect that "More wasps are caught by honey than by vinegar." "Every act of kindness," says Bentham, "is in fact an exercise of power, and a stock of friendship laid up; and why should not power exercise itself in the production of pleasure as of pain?" Kindness does not consist in gifts, but in gentleness and generosity of spirit.