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Why is john dory called john dory. Grill it carefully the flesh tastes good but is also very lean and quickly goes dry. A European dory the fish Zeus faber having a deep compressed body spiny dorsal fins and massive mobile jaws. It has a round dark spot on each side.

Peters fingerprint hence thumbprint markings. The origin of this fish name is slippery. On the model of Doe Collins English Dictionary - Complete Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition William Collins Sons Co.

John Dory was the subject of a folk song from the 1600s although if there was ever any evidence of a link between this song and the fish it has been lost. John Dory in British English. A related fish Zeus australis which is a valued food fish of Australia.

Its meat can be compared to the Turbot although the John Dory Fish has more spines. Next was the sheer clamp a 58-thick by 1-12-wide piece of Douglas-fir that extends from stem to transom passing through notches in each of the frame tops. Grayish with a distinctive yellow-ringed black spot on each side it has long pelvic fins long filamentous dorsal-fin spines and rows of spines on the.

The name John Dory is of uncertain origin. It may be an arbitrary or jocular variation of dory itself from the French dorée gilded or perhaps an allusion to John Dory the hero. In London on the afternoon of May 5 1848 a strange rain fell.

The golden skin of the fish found mostly in the Mediterranean may account for one possible reason why it is called John Dory since the French word for yellow is jaune and for golden is dorée. There are several theories about the origination of the common name but little evidence about its actual meaning. I found that because the frames were made of vertical-grained fir the pressure of the sheer clamps caused cracks in the frame notches.