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dorea

dorea, ~eta [OF doree < deaurata] , dory (kind of fish). Cf. deaurare 3. gustum doree, que nomen sumpsit ab auro, / Crasso †quia [? l. quam] Parthis plus placuisse reor Neckam DS III 561; hec ~a, doree Gl. AN Glasg. f. 21; 1265 pro ij ~etis ponendis in pane Manners 50; 1266 (1324) exceptis magnis piscibus, viz. congris, dorreis, rayes (Inq.) MGL II 279 (cf. CalIMisc I p. 103: doreys).

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