Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorees
Literary usage of Dorees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Modern System of Domestic Cookery: Arranged on the Most Economical Plan by M. Radcliffe (1823)
"... dorees, perch, tench, carp, pike, herrings, gudgeons, oysters, muscles, cockles,
lobsters, and salmon-trout. September. ..."
2. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1888)
"This was '' His- toire du Chevalier aux armes dorees, ... The Chevalier aux armes
dorees is doubtless Nestor, ..."
3. The History of Gibraltar and of Its Political Relation to Events in Europe by Frederick Sayer (1862)
"Soles, turbot, John dorees, mackerel, Sardine, mullets of both classes, gurnard,
... But with the exception of the John dorees and turbot, the fish lack ..."
4. The Bristol memorialist (1823)
"... dorees," -which Cotgrave informs as were " golden girdles, (in former times)
worn only by such as Trent for honest (ie chaste) women; for noted whores ..."
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