douce

adjective2

1. •
   Sweet; nice; pleasant.

   • Beyond the bed stood the woman. Dark and pale, aged about twenty-one . . . his mother, Mary de Bohun. Death had stolen none of her douce beauty and sweetness. — 1978
2. •
   (dialect) Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.

   • The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner. — 1919