compotier
Americannoun
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compotiers
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of compotier
From French, dating back to 1745–55; see origin at compote, -ier 2
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The apples should now have an even glossy surface; as each is finished put it at once into the compotier.
From Choice Cookery by Catherine Owen
They may be combined in large dishes, giving effect of abundance, or a quantity of one kind massed together for color-effects, or a few choice specimens of a kind placed on separate compotiers.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
The compotiers are glass urns and the only pieces of silver used are two tall Sheffield candelabra at night, without shades, the salts and peppers and the necessary spoons and forks.
From Etiquette by Emily Post
The perishable articles, that cannot be put on until the last moment, can usually have their position located by the compotiers or the bonbon dishes which will hold them.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
These dishes, or compotiers, hold candy or fruit, chosen less for taste than for decorative appearance.
From Etiquette by Emily Post
Yellow is sunny in effect, and for a yellow dinner the color scheme may be obtained with yellow flowers, oranges, silver-gilt compotiers, gilded china, and with light diffused through yellow shades.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
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