Dutch comforts

A form of Dutch comfort — Comfort derived from a situation not being any worse than it is.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of Dutch comfort

    In due course they reach Albany, then a small Dutch town filled with Dutch people, Dutch comforts and frugality, and Dutch cabbage.

    1880, Egerton Ryerson, The Loyalists of America and Their Times: from 1620 to 1816, page 221
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