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• doré
  doré

  noun

  the walleye or pike perch of North America.
• Dore
  Dore

  noun

  Monts a group of mountains in central France: highest peak, 6,188 feet (1,885 meters).
• Doré
  Doré

  noun

  (Paul) Gustave 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.

doré

¹ American  

[daw-rey] / dɔˈreɪ /

noun

Canadian Dialect.

1. the walleye or pike perch of North America.

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doré ² American  

[daw-rey] / dɔˈreɪ /

noun

Mining.

1. a mixture of gold and silver in cast bars, as bullion.

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Dore ³ American  

[dawr] / dɔr /

noun

1. Monts a group of mountains in central France: highest peak, 6,188 feet (1,885 meters).

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Doré ⁴ American  

[daw-rey, daw-rey] / dɔˈreɪ, dɔˈreɪ /

noun

1. (Paul) Gustave 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.

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Doré ¹ British  

/ dɔre /

noun

1. ( 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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doré ² British  

/ -riː, ˈdɔːreɪ /

noun

1. another name for walleye walleye

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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

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

Sur un bas rouge bien tiré Brille, sous le jupon doré, La mule blanche— in spite of these lines I did not find the Ischia women eminent, as those of Capri are, for beauty.

From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington

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