doux-amer
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
doux-amer (feminine douce-amère, masculine plural doux-amers, feminine plural douces-amères)
- bittersweet (both bitter and sweet)
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Further reading
- Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “doux”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
- “doux-amer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012