vendace

[ ven-dis, -deys ]

noun,plural ven·dac·es, (especially collectively) ven·dace.

a whitefish, Coregonus vandesius, inhabiting lakes in Scotland and England.

Origin of vendace

1690–1700; originally Scots, apparently <French vandoise,Old French vendoise any of various cyprinid fish (<Gallo-Romance *vindisia, probably derivative of Celtic *wind- white, bright; compare Old Irish find,Welsh gwyn); perhaps conflated with a local Scots word (compare the variant gevenaces)

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How to use vendace in a sentence

Nothing is ever found visible to the naked eye in the stomach of the vendace.
Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 | Various
The Mill Loch, another and lesser of those surrounding the burgh, also contains vendace, which are fished for one day in August.
Scottish Loch Scenery | Thomas A. Croal

British Dictionary definitions for vendace

vendace

/ (ˈvɛndeɪs) /

nounplural -daces or -dace

either of two small whitefish, Coregonus vandesius (Lochmaben vendace) or C. gracilior (Cumberland vendace), occurring in lakes in Scotland and NW England respectively: See also powan

Origin of vendace

C18: from New Latin vandēsius, from Old French vandoise, probably of Celtic origin

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