alose
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin alosa or alausa.
Noun
alose (plural aloses)
- A fish, the European shad (Alosa alosa); the allice or allis.
- The American shad(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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French
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Alosa_fallax.jpg/220px-Alosa_fallax.jpg)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish *alausa
Pronunciation
Noun
alose f (plural aloses)
- shad (fishes of the herring family)
Further reading
- “alose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian
Noun
alose f
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