dulcetadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈdʌlsᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈdəlsət/

Forms:

α. late Middle English doucett, late Middle English dowcet, late Middle English dowsett, late Middle English–1600s doucet.

β. late Middle English dulcett, late Middle English dulcette, 1500s doulcet, 1500s doulcete, 1500s–1600s dulced, 1500s– dulcet, 1600s doulced.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French doucet.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French doucet pleasant, agreeable (early 13th cent. in Old French), having a sweet taste or smell (late 14th cent. or earlier; < douce , feminine of doux sweet (see douce adj.) + -et -et suffix¹). Compare earlier douce adj. Compare also doucet n., dowset n.¹, dowset n.²Compare Italian dolcetto slightly sweet, pleasant, agreeable (all 13th cent.; the use as noun in sense B. 1 is not paralleled in Italian). Specific forms. The β. forms show remodelling after classical Latin dulcis sweet (see dulce adj.) and Middle French doulcet , which reflects similar Latinization and has a purely graphic medial l (compare etymological note at douce adj.). With forms in -ed perhaps compare -ed suffix¹. Specific senses. In sense B. 2 apparently after dulciana principal n.

Now chiefly literary.

A. adj.

1. Having a sweet taste or smell. Also of a taste or smell: sweet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective]

sweetc888

sootc950

doucea1350

sweetlya1350

softa1398

lusciousc1420

dulcet1440

mellite?1440

sugarishc1450

dulce1508

ambrosiana1522

figgy?1549

nut-sweet1586

nectaredc1595

dulcid1596

marmalady1602

fat1610

unsharp1611

unsour1611

marmalade1617

dulcorous1676

dulceous1688

saccharaceous1689

sugar-candyish1852

saccharic1945

α.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 128 Dowcet mete, or swete cake mete [1499 Pynson bake mete].

a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 33 (MED) Seson it with Sugre, & loke þat it be poynant & doucet.

a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 972 Clarre Romain, with doucet ypocras, Thorught al the hal rynnyng hye and bas.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 62 in Sylva (Doucet) Pepins.

β. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) v. xl. sig. kiij^v/2 The other partyes..arne the swetter and more dulcette.1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) iv. 20 This doulcet water.1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. H ij All doulcet wynes.1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Dulced, sweet.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 347 And from sweet kernels prest She tempers dulcet creams. 1742 W. Shenstone School-mistress xxviii Whose Art did first these dulcet Cates display.1795 M. Akenside Pleasures of Imagination iii. 101 Unfolded blooms Exhaling sweetness, that the skilful bee May taste at will, from their selected spoils To work her dulcet food.1817 Repository of Arts July 15 Flies lured by the dulcet smell of sugar and treacle.1858 H. W. Longfellow Catawba Wine in Courtship Miles Standish 188 But Catawba wine Has a taste more divine, More dulcet, delicious, and dreamy.1936 Weird Tales July 8/2 Nor could he have sworn whether the vintages he drunk were sour or dulcet.2018 Sunday Times (Nexis) 29 July Toasted hazelnuts and dulcet, creamy goat's curd.

2. Pleasing or agreeable to the eye, ear, or feelings; soothing, gentle; mellifluous. Later chiefly of sounds, esp. in dulcet tones.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective]

winsomea900

sweetc900

likingeOE

i-quemec950

lieflyOE

winlyOE

hereOE

thankfulc1000

merryOE

queemc1175

beina1200

willea1200

leesomec1200

savouryc1225

estea1250

i-wilc1275

winc1275

welcomea1300

doucea1350

well-pleasingc1350

acceptablea1382

pleasablea1382

pleasanta1382

pleaseda1382

acceptedc1384

amiablec1384

well-likinga1387

queemfulc1390

flattering1393

pleasinga1398

well-queeminga1400

comelyc1400

farrandc1400

greable1401

goodlyc1405

amicable?a1425

placablec1429

amene1433

winful1438

listyc1440

dulcet1445

agreeablec1450

favourousc1485

sweetly?a1500

pleasureful?c1502

dulcea1513

grate1523

prettya1529

plausible1541

jolly1549

dulcoratec1550

toothsome1551

pleasurable1557

tickling1558

suavec1560

amenous1567

odoriferous?1575

perfumed1580

glada1586

tickle1593

pleasurous1595

favoursome1601

dulcean1606

gratifying1611

Hyblaean1614

gratulatea1616

arrident1616

solacefula1618

pleasantable1619

placid1628

contentsome1632

sapid1640

canny1643

gustful1647

peramene1657

pergrateful1657

tastefula1659

complacent1660

placentiousa1661

gratifactorya1665

bland1667

suavious1669

palatable1683

placent1683

complaisant1710

nice1747

tasty1796

sweetsome1799

titbit1820

connate1836

cunning1843

mooi1850

gemütlich1852

sympathique1859

congenial1878

sympathetic1900

sipid1908

onkus1910

sympathisch1911

α.

1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 269 (MED) Lechery, the dowsett syn..abideth the doome.

c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies ii. xi, in Anglia (1885) 8 178 Wiþ doucet not and ryme.

a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1008 Fair melusine, the suete doucet made [= maid].

a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 877 Doucet songes hurde of briddes enuiron.

β. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 86 (MED) He sang it in a moste swete voyce..his voyce was a dulcett melodye.?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. cc.ii Her delycate and doulcete complacence.1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Diij^v He will see the (my dulcet frinde).a1594 Edmond Ironside (1991) iii. v. 97 Borrow the Muses ayd and lett them breath Some dulcet and melodious harmoney.1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse xi. 118 It is a dulcet [1664 dulcid] humour.1652 Norton's Ordinal of Alchemy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 53 He shall make full secreate search, For this Scyence with doulced [a1500 BL Add. dowcet] speech.c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies vii. 52 Still to her dulcet murmurs not a foe.1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 256 Her dulcet tones seemed even sweeter than before.1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd vii. 58 The voice was unexpectedly attractive; it was the low and dulcet note suggestive of romance; common in description, rare in experience.1930 C. Bax Socrates in Six Plays vi. 573 The climate there is so dulcet that they are immune from all disease, and live much longer than we do.2010 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 8 May Watching her young daughter steal the show with her dulcet tones and commanding range.

B. n.

1. A dulcet note or tone. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > note or tone > sweet note

sweetnessc1540

dulcet?1578

flute-note1833

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > testicle(s)

dulcet?1578

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 85 Mine Italian dulcets, my dutch houez, my doobl releas.

1825 R. Gilchrist Lines in Newcastle Mag. Sept. 408 Had thy soft soothing voice poured its dulcets in vain?

1859 H. Morgan Music Hall Disc. 335 Pleased with the dulcets of his syren song, She stood enchanted, fixed, nor knew how long.

1908 C. Sandburg Let. 21 Apr. in M. Sandburg Poet & Dream Girl (1999) liii. 118 God! the music of those throats—such dulcets and diapasons of song as they sang!

2015 I. McMillan Neither Nowt nor Summat (2016) 227 I hope they cast an authentic Yorkshire actor for the part; the provenance of the dulcets can be crucial in selling a new concept like this.

2. Music. An organ stop resembling the dulciana, but an octave higher in pitch; = dulciana principal n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > diapason tone stops > dulciana

dulciana1772

dulcet1833

dolcan1852

1833 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 2 Nov. The following are the stops in the Savile organ:—Swelling Organ..Dulcet..4 feet [etc.].

1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 598 In the organ made..Green..included [in the Swell] not only a Dulciana but also its octave, the Dulcet or Dulciana Principal.

1965 G. A. Audsley Art of Organ-building I. 524 The best material for the dulcet is tin, which lends itself to the delicate manipulation necessary for the production of the light ‘silvery tone’ characteristic of the stop.

2006 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 15 Dec. 25 The stops have wonderfully romantic names—dulcet, glockenspiel, quint, bassoon, violone and—my favourite—vox angelica.

Compounds

General use in various types of compound, as in dulcet-chinking, dulcet-eyed, dulcet-voiced etc., adjs.

ΚΠ

a1784 S. Johnson Parody Transl. Medea in H. L. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson (1786) 65 With dulcet-streaming sound.

1820 J. Keats Fancy in Lamia & Other Poems 126 Dulcet-eyed as Ceres' daughter.

1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. III. 23 Five dulcet-chinking pennies.

1938 Amer. Mercury 45 125 Restore his morale and inflate his ego, and he will never listen to the dulcet-voiced siren nor look at a silken-clad calf—that is, almost never.

2014 J. Costello Time of our Lives 136 If I spoke at that volume, I'd sound about as dulcet-toned as Dot Cotton mid-meltdown.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	dulcet
释义	dulcetadj.n. Brit. /ˈdʌlsᵻt/, U.S. /ˈdəlsət/ Forms: α. late Middle English doucett, late Middle English dowcet, late Middle English dowsett, late Middle English–1600s doucet. β. late Middle English dulcett, late Middle English dulcette, 1500s doulcet, 1500s doulcete, 1500s–1600s dulced, 1500s– dulcet, 1600s doulced. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French doucet. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French doucet pleasant, agreeable (early 13th cent. in Old French), having a sweet taste or smell (late 14th cent. or earlier; < douce , feminine of doux sweet (see douce adj.) + -et -et suffix¹). Compare earlier douce adj. Compare also doucet n., dowset n.¹, dowset n.²Compare Italian dolcetto slightly sweet, pleasant, agreeable (all 13th cent.; the use as noun in sense B. 1 is not paralleled in Italian). Specific forms. The β. forms show remodelling after classical Latin dulcis sweet (see dulce adj.) and Middle French doulcet , which reflects similar Latinization and has a purely graphic medial l (compare etymological note at douce adj.). With forms in -ed perhaps compare -ed suffix¹. Specific senses. In sense B. 2 apparently after dulciana principal n. Now chiefly literary. A. adj. 1. Having a sweet taste or smell. Also of a taste or smell: sweet. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] sweetc888 sootc950 doucea1350 sweetlya1350 softa1398 lusciousc1420 dulcet1440 mellite?1440 sugarishc1450 dulce1508 ambrosiana1522 figgy?1549 nut-sweet1586 nectaredc1595 dulcid1596 marmalady1602 fat1610 unsharp1611 unsour1611 marmalade1617 dulcorous1676 dulceous1688 saccharaceous1689 sugar-candyish1852 saccharic1945 α. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 128 Dowcet mete, or swete cake mete [1499 Pynson bake mete]. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 33 (MED) Seson it with Sugre, & loke þat it be poynant & doucet. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 972 Clarre Romain, with doucet ypocras, Thorught al the hal rynnyng hye and bas. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 62 in Sylva (Doucet) Pepins. β. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) v. xl. sig. kiij^v/2 The other partyes..arne the swetter and more dulcette.1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) iv. 20 This doulcet water.1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. H ij All doulcet wynes.1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Dulced, sweet.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 347 And from sweet kernels prest She tempers dulcet creams. View more context for this quotation1742 W. Shenstone School-mistress xxviii Whose Art did first these dulcet Cates display.1795 M. Akenside Pleasures of Imagination iii. 101 Unfolded blooms Exhaling sweetness, that the skilful bee May taste at will, from their selected spoils To work her dulcet food.1817 Repository of Arts July 15 Flies lured by the dulcet smell of sugar and treacle.1858 H. W. Longfellow Catawba Wine in Courtship Miles Standish 188 But Catawba wine Has a taste more divine, More dulcet, delicious, and dreamy.1936 Weird Tales July 8/2 Nor could he have sworn whether the vintages he drunk were sour or dulcet.2018 Sunday Times (Nexis) 29 July Toasted hazelnuts and dulcet, creamy goat's curd. 2. Pleasing or agreeable to the eye, ear, or feelings; soothing, gentle; mellifluous. Later chiefly of sounds, esp. in dulcet tones. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] winsomea900 sweetc900 likingeOE i-quemec950 lieflyOE winlyOE hereOE thankfulc1000 merryOE queemc1175 beina1200 willea1200 leesomec1200 savouryc1225 estea1250 i-wilc1275 winc1275 welcomea1300 doucea1350 well-pleasingc1350 acceptablea1382 pleasablea1382 pleasanta1382 pleaseda1382 acceptedc1384 amiablec1384 well-likinga1387 queemfulc1390 flattering1393 pleasinga1398 well-queeminga1400 comelyc1400 farrandc1400 greable1401 goodlyc1405 amicable?a1425 placablec1429 amene1433 winful1438 listyc1440 dulcet1445 agreeablec1450 favourousc1485 sweetly?a1500 pleasureful?c1502 dulcea1513 grate1523 prettya1529 plausible1541 jolly1549 dulcoratec1550 toothsome1551 pleasurable1557 tickling1558 suavec1560 amenous1567 odoriferous?1575 perfumed1580 glada1586 tickle1593 pleasurous1595 favoursome1601 dulcean1606 gratifying1611 Hyblaean1614 gratulatea1616 arrident1616 solacefula1618 pleasantable1619 placid1628 contentsome1632 sapid1640 canny1643 gustful1647 peramene1657 pergrateful1657 tastefula1659 complacent1660 placentiousa1661 gratifactorya1665 bland1667 suavious1669 palatable1683 placent1683 complaisant1710 nice1747 tasty1796 sweetsome1799 titbit1820 connate1836 cunning1843 mooi1850 gemütlich1852 sympathique1859 congenial1878 sympathetic1900 sipid1908 onkus1910 sympathisch1911 α. 1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 269 (MED) Lechery, the dowsett syn..abideth the doome. c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies ii. xi, in Anglia (1885) 8 178 Wiþ doucet not and ryme. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1008 Fair melusine, the suete doucet made [= maid]. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 877 Doucet songes hurde of briddes enuiron. β. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 86 (MED) He sang it in a moste swete voyce..his voyce was a dulcett melodye.?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. cc.ii Her delycate and doulcete complacence.1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Diij^v He will see the (my dulcet frinde).a1594 Edmond Ironside (1991) iii. v. 97 Borrow the Muses ayd and lett them breath Some dulcet and melodious harmoney.1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse xi. 118 It is a dulcet [1664 dulcid] humour.1652 Norton's Ordinal of Alchemy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 53 He shall make full secreate search, For this Scyence with doulced [a1500 BL Add. dowcet] speech.c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies vii. 52 Still to her dulcet murmurs not a foe.1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 256 Her dulcet tones seemed even sweeter than before.1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd vii. 58 The voice was unexpectedly attractive; it was the low and dulcet note suggestive of romance; common in description, rare in experience.1930 C. Bax Socrates in Six Plays vi. 573 The climate there is so dulcet that they are immune from all disease, and live much longer than we do.2010 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 8 May Watching her young daughter steal the show with her dulcet tones and commanding range. B. n. 1. A dulcet note or tone. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > note or tone > sweet note sweetnessc1540 dulcet?1578 flute-note1833 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > testicle(s) dulcet?1578 ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 85 Mine Italian dulcets, my dutch houez, my doobl releas. 1825 R. Gilchrist Lines in Newcastle Mag. Sept. 408 Had thy soft soothing voice poured its dulcets in vain? 1859 H. Morgan Music Hall Disc. 335 Pleased with the dulcets of his syren song, She stood enchanted, fixed, nor knew how long. 1908 C. Sandburg Let. 21 Apr. in M. Sandburg Poet & Dream Girl (1999) liii. 118 God! the music of those throats—such dulcets and diapasons of song as they sang! 2015 I. McMillan Neither Nowt nor Summat (2016) 227 I hope they cast an authentic Yorkshire actor for the part; the provenance of the dulcets can be crucial in selling a new concept like this. 2. Music. An organ stop resembling the dulciana, but an octave higher in pitch; = dulciana principal n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > diapason tone stops > dulciana dulciana1772 dulcet1833 dolcan1852 1833 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 2 Nov. The following are the stops in the Savile organ:—Swelling Organ..Dulcet..4 feet [etc.]. 1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 598 In the organ made..Green..included [in the Swell] not only a Dulciana but also its octave, the Dulcet or Dulciana Principal. 1965 G. A. Audsley Art of Organ-building I. 524 The best material for the dulcet is tin, which lends itself to the delicate manipulation necessary for the production of the light ‘silvery tone’ characteristic of the stop. 2006 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 15 Dec. 25 The stops have wonderfully romantic names—dulcet, glockenspiel, quint, bassoon, violone and—my favourite—vox angelica. Compounds General use in various types of compound, as in dulcet-chinking, dulcet-eyed, dulcet-voiced etc., adjs. ΚΠ a1784 S. Johnson Parody Transl. Medea in H. L. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson (1786) 65 With dulcet-streaming sound. 1820 J. Keats Fancy in Lamia & Other Poems 126 Dulcet-eyed as Ceres' daughter. 1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. III. 23 Five dulcet-chinking pennies. 1938 Amer. Mercury 45 125 Restore his morale and inflate his ego, and he will never listen to the dulcet-voiced siren nor look at a silken-clad calf—that is, almost never. 2014 J. Costello Time of our Lives 136 If I spoke at that volume, I'd sound about as dulcet-toned as Dot Cotton mid-meltdown. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1440
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