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DOL-chee fawr-nee-en-tay
noun, phrase
happy relaxation; it is sweet to do nothing; literally: cake to make nothing
1894Flight from London to BerlinShe was wonderfully well, eating, drinking, and sleeping to admiration, and never doing anything, not even reading or writing. She enjoyed the 'dolce far niente' in all the force of the term.1899Last of the Great ScoutsThere followed for Will a period of dolce far niente; days when he might lie on his back and watch the clouds drift across the sky; when he might have an eye to the beauty of the woodland and the sweep of the plain, without the nervous strain of studying every tree and knoll that might conceal a lurking redskin.1912The Social CancerThus moralized a Spanish traveler in 1842, just as that dolce far niente was drawing to its close.1926The Plumed SerpentMen in soiled white clothes were lounging, with folded arms and one leg crossed in front of the other, against the corner of a house, or crouching under the walls. Not by any means dolce far niente. They seemed to be waiting, eternally waiting for something.1971Arduous Destiny: Canada, 1874-1896There [Victoria] the comfort of a salubrious and easy climate prodcued a delicious dolce far niente.Labels: D. H. Lawrence, Helen Cody Wetmore, Jacques Casanov Seingalt, Jose Rizal, P. B. Waite
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