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doux

[ doo ]

adjective

  1. (of champagne) very sweet.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of doux1

1940–45; < French < Latin dulcis savory, sweet
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Example Sentences

Raymond Depardon: Un Moment Si Doux is on display at Grand Palais, Paris until February 10, 2014.

The billets-doux Petraeus sent to his paramour-cum-biographer on an unencrypted Gmail account!

Sir Philip was actually reading Miss Luttridge's billet-doux aloud when the black entered the library.

Judge of her talents for the game by this instance:—she hid her billet-doux within the lining of Juba's collar.

This language is a murmur interrupted by subdued hisses,'—'un murmure entre-coupé de sifflements doux.'

He even composed the billets-doux which the illiterate lover sent to his inamorata.

My dear boys almost daily exchange billet-doux with mother, since their absence of a week at a time from home.

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