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vendace

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ven⋅dace

  [ven-dis, -deys]
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–noun, plural -dac⋅es, (especially collectively) -dace.
a whitefish, Coregonus vandesius, inhabiting lakes in Scotland and England.
Origin:
1690–1700; orig. Scots, appar. < F vandoise, OF vendoise any of various cyprinid fish (< Gallo-Rom *vindisia, prob. deriv. of Celtic *wind- white, bright; cf. OIr find, Welsh gwyn); perh. conflated with a local Scots word (cf. the var. gevenaces)
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ven·dace   (věn'dĭs, -dās)   
n.   pl. vendace or ven·dac·es

  1. A small whitefish (Coregonus vandesius) of Scotland.

  2. A closely related whitefish (C. gracilior) of the Lake District of England.


[Probably French vandoise, a kind of fish, from Old French vendoise, probably of Celtic origin.]
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