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Eldorado and El Dorado

Dorado in English means Golden.

El Dorado means The Golden.

Shown as two words in the Las Vegas club on Fremont. Spelled as one word at the Henderson and Reno clubs. So either could be correct depending on where you are playing.

However, if you're reading poetry, it may mean an ideal state never to be found, as in:

Eldorado

By Edgar Allan Poe

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—
This knight so bold—
And o’er his heart a shadow—
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow—
‘Shadow,’ said he,
‘Where can it be—
This land of Eldorado?’

‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,’
The shade replied,—
‘If you seek for Eldorado!’

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