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compote

compote

6 7.2
Cooked fruit, often sweetened, served cold or warm as a dessert
  • noun
  • /ˈkɒmpoʊt/
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  • I also have rhubarb and pear compote so it looks like some dried fruits as well.
  • fruit compote

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Examples

  • Try this simple, healthy compote for an all-natural sugar fix.

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  • I made an apple compote with some Honeycrisps from the refrigerator, then added some strawberry preserves to it.

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  • - No, first, he has to eat the compote.

  • So I take the compote.

  • With or without the fruit compote?

  • " Karen ordered her usual: fresh juice, fruit compote, coffee, hard roll."

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  • - Here's the compote, it's delicious.

  • The compote is very good," Romi said, and we all laughed.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Smother your crepes in the compote and dig in.

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  • Spoon warm compote over the hotcakes, top with a dollop of butter, and serve immediately.

Synonyms

fruit compote
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Cooked fruit in sugar makes a sweet dessert often with spices

is the shorter general term for the same fruit dessert

Compounds

Cooked fruit in sugar makes a sweet dessert often with spices

How Preserved

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compote
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Surface Forms

compote singular
compotes plural

Etymology

The word compote comes from a French word that meant 'mixture' and from the same root as English compose, with com- meaning 'together'. So a compote is fruit 'put together' and cooked into a sweet, stewed dessert.