Fonts: DejaVu vs Noto

Hello.

I've got some software (e.g. xfce4-terminal) set to use "Monospace" 
font: this used to map to "DejaVu" font on 2023Q3 port tree; however, 
after the upgrade to 2023Q4, it now mats to "Noto".

Before (Q3):
> % fc-match Monospace
> DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
After (Q4):
> % fc-match Monospace
> NotoSansMono-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans Mono" "Regular"

I read about the change stemming from Fedora up to fontconfig...
Fine.



However, in some situation I really want DejaVu instead of Noto: I 
thought specifying it explicitly would solve, but it doesn't.

Before (Q3):
> % fc-match DevaVu
> DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
After (Q4):
> % fc-match DejaVu
> NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"

This puzzles me and piss me off.
I can I tell the system not to override my choice?

  bye & Thanks in advance
	av.

P.S.
Of course I have dejavu-2.37_3 installed.