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Dorado

do·rado

UK/dəˈɹɑːdəʊ/ US/dɔˈrɑdoʊ/ uncommon

noun

1.

a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor; contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Origin

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Italian dorato (“gilded, golden”), ultimately from Latin deaurātus, the past participle of deaurō (“to gild”).

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