doré
noun
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
doré
1 American
[daw-ray]
/ dɔˈreɪ /
noun
Canadian Dialect.
doré
2
American
[daw-ray]
/ dɔˈreɪ /
noun
Mining.
Dore
3
American
[dawr ]
/ dɔr /
noun
Doré
4
American
[daw-ray, daw-ray]
/ dɔˈreɪ, dɔˈreɪ /
noun
Doré
1
British
/ dɔre /
noun
doré
2
British
/ ˈdɔːreɪ, -riː /
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
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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
It is true that others of the jeunesse doré had looked at, and talked of the beautiful Blanche Vernon.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
You like me make you present of six or seven doré?
From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson
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 isn't an easy situation for anyone," Dore noted.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
He was also helped by those at Castle Dore, such as the late Alastair Barr, who taught him to row and helped fuel his ambition to make the Olympics.
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
Athletes interested in other than sports, will even be able to participate in daily bakery trainings, and learn to make their own French baguette, said Doré.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
At the time, a post from her or Bryanboy or Garance Doré could carry the advertising weight of a page in a glossy magazine.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
“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
Crosthwaite, a painter whose work is as influenced by comic books as it is by Gustav Doré, recently won the top prize in the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2019
Those 'Elaine' illustrations are just as impure as anything else that Doré has done; but they are also vapid, and without any one merit whatever in point of art.
From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by John Ruskin
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