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(noun) - (1) A common name in sixteenth-century poetry for a sweetheart, especially for an unsophisticated country girl.
--Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
(2) The name means "sweet and beautiful," from French douce et belle.
--John Phin's Shakespeare Cyclopædia and New Glossary, 1902
January 16, 2018