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doré

(ˈdɔːreɪ; -riː)
n
(Animals) another name for walleye5, walleye6
[C18: from French, gilded; see dory]

Doré

(French dɔre)
n
(Biography) (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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Do•ré

(dɔˈreɪ)

n.
(Paul) Gustave, 1832?–83, French painter and illustrator.
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Copperfield, my daughter Dora, and my daughter Dora's confidential friend!' It was, no doubt, Mr.
The speaker was not Dora. No; the confidential friend, Miss Murdstone!
There was nothing worth mentioning in the material world, but Dora Spenlow, to be astonished about.
Spenlow to me, 'to accept the office - if I may so describe it - of my daughter Dora's confidential friend.
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Henceforth it would be hers no more; fifteen-year-old Dora was to inherit it when she had gone.
Davy and Dora, the Green Gables twins, whisked the babies off to the garden.
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the voice of the husband said: "Dora, I forbid you!
will, of course, act as she pleases; but I cannot allow you to do it, Dora."
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