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That’s because the company’s giant color compendiums originate at least in part from ornithology and natural history.

From National Geographic • Dec. 7, 2023

Indeed, American cookbook authors focusing on non-Eurocentric recipes no longer have to be compendiums that represent the cuisine of their heritage as a whole; instead they can have diasporic nuances.

From Salon • May 26, 2022

Growing up in Buffalo, N.Y., in the late ’70s and early ’80s, the son of an artist father and homemaker mother, Maggio was fascinated by his parents’ compendiums of Life magazines.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2021

Its probable origin is Indian; Indian story compendiums too have a fondness for frame stories, for Russian doll-style stories within stories, and for animal fables.

From New York Times • May 24, 2021

This would be enough to disenchant any young gentleman fresh from his compendiums of philosophy.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir