Where did the unusual name 'John Dory' come from?
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It could be from several places. Doree' means gilded in French and juene ,means yellow. SO it could have been the gilded yellow fish. And John Dory is an old child's story. They could have combined the ideas to come up with the name for the fish.
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From his parents?
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