Resembling or characteristic of a dory fish; having golden or warm coloring similar to a dory.
From doree (golden fish) with the adjective suffix '-y'; maintains the French-Latin root referring to golden coloring.
This adjective shows how English borrowed fish-related color descriptors—'dorey' coloring would invoke Mediterranean culinary and artistic traditions in the speaker's mind.
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