compot
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Dated Dated form of compote (“the spreadable food”).
- "She knows well enough I like her," so his liking said in confidence to his vanity, and even he hardly overheard them talk; "better a great deal than I knew it myself, till old Strafford got together this confounded stupid dinner-party (he caught Miss Chattesworth glancing at him with a peculiar look of inquiry). Why the plague did he ask me here? it was Puddock's turn, and he likes venison and compots,[…]"1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Which Concerns the Grand Dinner at the King’s House, and Who Were There, and Something of Their Talk, Reveries, Disputes, and General Jollity”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 233:
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Alternative Alternative form of kompot (“European dish of boiled fruits”).