vendace
(ˈvɛndɪs)
Also 8 vangis, 9 vendis, vendise.
[app. ad. OF. vendese, vendoise (mod.F. vandoise) dace.]
a. A species of small freshwater fish (Coregonus vandesius) belonging to the same genus as the pollan and powan or gwyniad, found in the lake of Lochmaben in Scotland. b. A closely-allied species (Coregonus gracilior) found in Derwentwater, formerly identified with the preceding.
| [1684 Sibbald Scotia Illustrata II. ii. 26 Piscis in Lacu Mabano, Vandesius. In eodem Lacu Gevandesius.] 1769 Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 268 It [the gwiniad] is the same with the Ferra of the lake of Geneva, the Schelley of Hulsewater, the Pollen of Lough Neagh, and the Vangis and Juvangis of Loch Mabon. 1777 ― in Lightfoot Flora Scot. (1789) I. 61 Guiniad. Found in Loch-Mabon; called in those parts the Vendace, and Juvangis; and in Loch-Lomond, where it is called the Poan. 1805 Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 272 There is one [fish] that, from every information that can be obtained, is peculiar to that loch [Castle Loch]... It is called the Vendise or Vendace. 1820 Scott Abbot xxiv, Herlings, which frequent the Nith, and vendisses, which are only found in the Castle-Loch of Lochmaben. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rur. Sports 231/1 The Vendace (Coregonus Albula), found also in the Scotch lakes. 1884 Braithwaite Salmonidæ Westmld. ii. 5 The vendace or vendis and the smelt, or sparling. |
| attrib. 1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 744/1 Vendace-fishing at Lochmaben takes place only on the 1st of August each year. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 366 Vendace Nets, from Lake Wetter. Ibid. 372 Gwyniad Roe,..Vendace Roe. |