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‖ dorado
(dɒˈrɑːdəʊ, ‖ doˈrado)
[a. Sp. dorado gilded = F. doré, It. dorato:—L. deaurātus, pa. pple. of deaurāre to gild, f. de- + aurum gold: see dory.]
1. A fish (Coryphæna hippuris) celebrated for its splendid colouring and the velocity of its movements; also called dolphin: see dolphin 2.
1604E. Grimstone tr. D'Acosta's Hist. W. Indies (1880) 164 They are pursued by the Dorados, and to escape them they leape out of the sea. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 5 Fish-hookes, for Porgos, Bonetos, or Dorados. 1796Stedman Surinam I. i. 9 Dolphins or dorados, which beautiful fish seem to take peculiar delight in sporting around the vessels. 1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. I. iii. 132.
2. A South American river fish: see quot.
1871Gd. Words 720 In the deeper waters of the Uruguay are numbers of the dorado, or South American salmon..a very handsome fish, of a bright golden colour.
3. A southern constellation, also called Xiphias or the Sword-fish.
1819in Pantologia. 1823Crabb Techn. Dict., Dorado, a southern constellation not visible in our latitude. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. lxxxiv. 34.
†4. fig.
a. A rich man. Obs.
b. See El Dorado.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §1 A troop of these ignorant Doradoes. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 379 He found not the sought for Dorado, a golden Prince indeed. |