doré

¹

[ daw-rey ]

noun

, Canadian Dialect.

1. the walleye or pike perch of North America.

doré

²

[ daw-rey ]

noun

, Mining.

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

Dore

³

[ dawr ]

noun

1. 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

1. (Paul) Gus·tave [pawl g, y, -, stav], 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.

doré

¹

/ -riː; ˈdɔːreɪ /

noun

1. another name for walleye walleye

Doré

²

/ dɔre /

noun

1. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of doré¹

1765–75; < Canadian French: literally, gilded, French < Late Latin deaurātus; dorado

Origin of doré²

< French: literally, gilded; < Late Latin deaurātus; dorado

Word History and Origins

Origin of doré¹

C18: from French, gilded; see dory

Example Sentences

But outside the East-meets-West Village neighborhoods Doré described, I saw fewer young single women like myself traveling alone.

From The Daily Beast

It was such an abyss as no artist has ever hinted, excepting Doré in his picturings of Dante's "Inferno."

From Project Gutenberg

Raemaekers in his cartoon follows the conception of Gustave Doré rather than that of the old fabulists.

From Project Gutenberg

They caught salmon in the water, and the silver-coloured hyodon, known among the voyageurs by the name of “Doré.”

From Project Gutenberg

A large illustrated edition—Doré's or Tissot's—will please and instruct them from their earliest days.

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Plainly there was something in common between the working moods of Poe and Doré.

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