compot

English

Noun

compot (plural compots)

  1. Dated form of compote (“the food”).
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
      '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 enquiry). Why the plague did he ask me here? it was Puddock's turn, and he likes venison and compots, […]
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