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On a very large table the four compotiers are filled with candy, and two or four larger silver dishes or baskets are filled with fruit and put on alternately with the candy dishes.

From Etiquette by Post, Emily

These are now valued for old association's sake; as are the silver candlesticks and silver compotiers.

From Manners and Social Usages by Sherwood, Mrs. John M. E. W.

A large centre-piece of flowers, with fruit and candies in glass compotiers, and high forms of nougat, and other sugar devices, are suitable standards for an elegant supper-table.

From Manners and Social Usages by Sherwood, Mrs. John M. E. W.

All the ornamentation of the dinner-table is high this winter—high candlesticks, high vases, high glasses for the flowers, and tall glass compotiers.

From Manners and Social Usages by Sherwood, Mrs. John M. E. W.

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 Ronald, Mary