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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as compote.

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Examples

  • England, a compot is a slightly fermented mixture of many things like fruits.

    Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon

  • 'I knowed I wasn't no good then, but I guv 'em compot from the lef' flank when we opened out. No! 'he said, bringing down his hand with a thump on the bedstead, 'a bay'nit ain't no good to a little man -- might as well' ave a bloomin 'fishin'-rod!

    Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'I knowed I wasn't no good then, but I guv 'em compot from the lef' flank when we opened out. No! 'he said, bringing down his hand with a thump on the bedstead, 'a bay'nit ain't no good to a little man -- might as well' ave a bloomin 'fishin'-rod!

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I gev 'em compot from the lef 'flank when we opened out. No! "he said, bringing down his hand with a thump on the bedstead," a bay'nit ain't no good to a little man -- might as well' ave a bloomin 'fishin'-rod!

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • VorticcUa compot ribus ciliatis globofis muticis, ftirpc umbellara.

    Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis .. 1788

  • Goa knows our hearts, even in their mod compot ied temper, are to apt to create diverfions; we need not dart Game for them to chafe, and by prefacing our praier with fecular difcourfe, make a gap for the fkme thoughts. to return upon us in them.

    The ladies calling, by the author of The whole duty of man. [Another] 1677

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