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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dulcet
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s dulcet tones (=a very sweet and gentle voice – often used humorously to mean the opposite)
▪ I could hear Martha’s dulcet tones bellowing that dinner was ready.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All pluck and pomp, it rang throughout the hall in dulcet tones as never before.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dulcet

Dulcet \Dul"cet\, a. [OF. doucet, dim. of dous sweet, F. doux, L. dulcis; akin to Gr. ? . Cf. Doucet.]

  1. Sweet to the taste; luscious. [Obs.]

    She tempers dulcet creams.
    --Milton.

  2. Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.

    Their dainty lays and dulcet melody.
    --Spenser. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dulcet

late 14c., from Old French doucet, diminutive of doux "sweet," earlier dulz, from Latin dulcis, from PIE *dlk-wi-, suffixed form of root *dlk-u- "sweet" (compare glucose).

Wiktionary
dulcet

a. 1 sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious. 2 Generally pleasing; agreeable. 3 (context archaic English) Sweet to the taste.

WordNet
dulcet

  1. adj. extremely pleasant in a gentle way; "the most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches"

  2. pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet]

Usage examples of "dulcet".

A dulcet sweetness of womankind, a little miniature cutie and he was frozen with anxiety.

An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.

This peace-lulled, beguiling, sea, teeming with myriad forms scintillating on the verge of nothingness--obscure, elusive, yet mighty in their wayward way--soothed with never so gentle, so dulcet a swaying.

Apollo spread over the face of the wide and spacious earth the golden strands of his beauteous hair, no sooner had diminutive and bright-hued birds with dulcet tongues greeted in sweet, mellifluous harmony the advent of rosy dawn, who, forsaking the soft couch of her zealous consort, revealed herself to mortals through the doors and balconies of the Manchegan horizon, than the famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, abandoning the downy bed of idleness, mounted his famous steed, Rocinante, and commenced to ride through the ancient and illustrious countryside of Montiel.

Although she was not thirsting for dulcet sayings, the peacefulness of other than invitations to the exposition of his mysteries and of their isolation in oneness, inspired her with such calm that she beat about in her brain, as if it were in the brain, for the specific injury he had committed.

An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.

Tarma's expression was cloyingly sweet, and the tone of her shifted voice dulcet.

But I prefer my truth flat and not concamerate, even with the most dulcet spring of famous rhetoric in spate beneath.

The great, night-freezing cry which haunted the southern latitudes was seldom heard here, though whole choruses of grublike peepers filled the dark hours with dulcet sound.