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doré
1[ daw-rey ]
noun
- the walleye or pike perch of North America.
doré
2[ daw-rey ]
noun
- a mixture of gold and silver in cast bars, as bullion.
Dore
3[ dawr ]
noun
- Monts [maw, n], a group of mountains in central France: highest peak, 6,188 feet (1,885 meters).
Doré
4[ daw-rey; French daw-rey ]
noun
- (Paul) Gus·tave [pawl g, y, -, stav], 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
Doré
2/ dɔre /
noun
- Doré(Paul) Gustave18321883MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: illustrator ( Paul ) Gustave (ɡystav). 1832–83, French illustrator, whose style tended towards the grotesque. He illustrated the Bible, Dante's Inferno, Cervantes' Don Quixote, and works by Rabelais
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Example Sentences
But outside the East-meets-West Village neighborhoods Doré described, I saw fewer young single women like myself traveling alone.
It was such an abyss as no artist has ever hinted, excepting Doré in his picturings of Dante's "Inferno."
Raemaekers in his cartoon follows the conception of Gustave Doré rather than that of the old fabulists.
They caught salmon in the water, and the silver-coloured hyodon, known among the voyageurs by the name of “Doré.”
A large illustrated edition—Doré's or Tissot's—will please and instruct them from their earliest days.
Plainly there was something in common between the working moods of Poe and Doré.
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