douce

1. (obsolete) Sweet; nice; pleasant.obsolete

2. (dialect) Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.Examples: "The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner."; "what would you say of a man with plenty of silver that bided all by his lone and made his own bed and did his own baking when he might have had a wife to make him douce and brave?"; "If Fabre, for example, were elected to the Academy tomorrow, you would see his lust for social revolution turning overnight into the most douce and debonair conformity."dialectal