doré
noun
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
doré
1 American
[daw-rey]
/ dɔˈreɪ /
noun
Canadian Dialect.
doré
2
American
[daw-rey]
/ dɔˈreɪ /
noun
Mining.
Dore
3
American
[dawr ]
/ dɔr /
noun
Doré
4
American
[daw-rey, daw-rey]
/ dɔˈreɪ, dɔˈreɪ /
noun
Doré
1
British
/ dɔre /
noun
doré
2
British
/ -riː, ˈdɔːreɪ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of doré1
1765–75; < Canadian French: literally, gilded, French < Late Latin deaurātus; see dorado
Origin of doré2
< French: literally, gilded; < Late Latin deaurātus; see dorado
Example Sentences
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China imports doré from those mines, process it and re-export.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 3, 2026
They have expanded in recent years, spurred on by favourable import duties on their main source of gold - imported, unrefined gold known as gold doré.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024
Old Ma'ame Paradis had caught seventeen small doré, four suckers, and eleven channel-catfish before she used up all the worms in her tomato-can.
From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Thomson, Edward William
Never, perhaps, did the art of dancing attain such eminent honours in the eyes of mankind, as during the siècle doré of the latter monarch.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
This idea the jeunesse doré propagated among their female acquaintances; and for a time it obtained credit.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne
"We said 'that's a dangerous place Paul, don't muck about over there'," Mr Dore said.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
It was their influence that led him to first pick up an oar at Castle Dore Rowing Club.
From BBC ● May 23, 2024
“It is not the job of a card reader to promise revelations,” Jessica Dore writes in her book “Tarot for Change,” “because that’s not how secrets work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
He welcomed Jimmy Dore, another conspiracy-theory-minded comedian-podcaster, for a remote interview, thanking him for a mood lift “at a time where I plainly need it.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
He had no idea where he had got his picture of academic life—perhaps from the Dore illustrations of Dante’s Inferno with its massed and radiant angels.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
It contained illustrations from Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late-19th century.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
“I think people are just longing to socially connect,” Berlin-based DJ Elias Doré said, saying that thousands of young people would normally be dancing under the open skies of European festivals this summer.
From Reuters ● Jun. 26, 2020
However, the world’s tastes have come around to Aligoté’s austerity measures, in part because a better clonal selection called Aligoté Doré has been isolated, which yields wines with a more supple texture and superior aromatics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2018
The 16-minute film consists largely of tracking shots through the Salon Doré, a blinged-out cousin of the Oval Office, with its chandeliers, clocks, candelabras, tapestries and gilded everything.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2017
Doré, Plate 100, shows the Samaritan bringing the wounded man to the inn, as described in verse 34.
From The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Bailey, Henry Turner
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