douceur

n. 赏钱, 小费

发音

其它

词形变化

douceurs 复数 douceurs

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Sweetness of manner: agreeableness, gentleness.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Sweet speech: a compliment.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  3. 3.

    A sweetener: a gift offered to sweeten another's attitude, a tip or bribe.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    A tax break provided as an inducement to sell valuable items (especially art) to public collections rather than on the open market.

    英国 可数 不可数

词源

Borrowed from French douceur (“sweetness”), from Old French dolçor, dulcur, etc., from Latin dulcōr + -em, from dulcis (“sweet”). Naturalized in Middle English as douceoure, dousour but treated as a French loanword from the 17th century onward. Doublet of dulcour.

来源：wiktionary