Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as dory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of john doree.

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Examples

  • These appear to employ approximately half of our fair city's jeunesse doree, occupying the...

    EconLog: Political Economy Archives 2009

  • The price had the appearance of being considerable when opposed to the extraordinary cheapness of others of value, but was, in truth, so very reasonable when estimated by its goodness, that it left me under no other surprise than how the gentlemen of this country, not greatly eminent for the delicacy of their taste, had discovered the preference of the doree to all other fish: but I was informed that

    The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

  • The only fish which bore any price was a john doree, as it is called.

    The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

  • Mr. Quin, whose distinguishing tooth hath been so justly celebrated, had lately visited Plymouth, and had done those honors to the doree which are so justly due to it from that sect of modern philosophers who, with Sir Epicure Mammon, or Sir Epicure Quin, their head, seem more to delight in a fish-pond than in a garden, as the old Epicureans are said to have done.

    The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

  • Wishing to renounce none of her former luxuries, she insisted upon keeping her salon as in former days, trying to conceal her poverty by her gaiety; but it was a sorrowful case of _la misere doree_.

    Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

  • When war was declared, Roos, who belonged to the jeunesse doree of Brussels, gave his own ninety horse-power car to the Government and enlisted in a regiment of grenadiers.

    Fighting in Flanders 1918

  • To the college boy of the early nineties Richard Harding Davis was the "beau ideal of jeunesse doree," a sophisticated heart of gold.

    Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis Davis appreciations: Various 1917

  • On our corner is a house where several of the English railroad men live, and across is the Club Amicitia, made up largely of the jeunesse doree, who are mostly pro-American.

    The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • They had at first made a constant demand on her purse, her talents and her time: then she grew tired of them, and felt more and more chary of being identified with a set which was in such ill-odour with that very same jeunesse doree whom Candeille had desired to please.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • English jeunesse doree to flock and see Moliere played in French, by a

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

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