| The allusion in the close of the letter appears to be to a douceur which it was intended to present to the secretary. |
| Nevertheless, the efforts of X and Y to secure the douceur were not relaxed. |
| Clearly, the Contaminated Land Register has caused a market paralysis so there has to be a fiscal douceur to compensate. |
| He held the door for me, and, giving him his douceur, I set my foot on the step. |
| And I needed to distract both my mind and my stomach from what lay ahead later that night on board the Au Fil des Douceurs boat. |
| He had arranged for fraudulent South Sea shares to be given to the king, and had overseen the distribution of douceurs in Parliament to help things along. |
