What's the difference between dulcet and dulcitude?
Dulcet
Definition:
(a.) Sweet to the taste; luscious.
(a.) Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious.
Example Sentences:
(1) They drifted in, to the smell of pork roasting and the dulcet tones of Billie Holiday.
(2) Of the 229 people detained as part of Operation Dulcet – the huge drive to bring lawbreakers to justice – 174 have been charged with offences including riotous assembly, affray, unlawful assembly, assault on police and criminal damage.
(3) Williams, 58, has reportedly learned to mimic Boyle's dulcet tones on a version of her audition song for the ITV talent show, I Dreamed a Dream.
(4) Think of writer and columnist Bryony Gordon’s revelations that her lover is so wrapped up in his job that he makes her have sex “to the dulcet tones of Jeremy Paxman berating an MP over the financial crisis”.
(5) Term for "female boss who doesn't always talk in the sweet dulcet tones of angels with the patience of a bank of saints": boss.
(6) Operation Dulcet is investigating rioting, hijacking of vehicles, attacks on politicians' offices, threats made against politicians, un-notified processions and social media-based offences.
(7) Preferable to a more sophisticated Zionist leadership that will throw sand in the eyes of the international community and talk in dulcet tones about a political agreement with the Palestinians, but will do all it can to prevent Palestinian independence.
(8) Still, it does give us the chance to hear the dulcet tones of Macy Gray again as she takes the reins midway through and carries the song to its heartfelt finale of – altogether now – "M.E.G.A, MegaUpload."