compote
noun/ˈkɒmpɒt/
/ˈkɑːmpəʊt/
[countable, uncountable]- a cold dessert (= a sweet dish) made of fruit that has been cooked slowly with sugarTopics Foodc2Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French, from Old French composte ‘mixture’, from Latin composita, compositum ‘something put together’, feminine and neuter past participle of componere.
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