A dessert dish of fruit stewed in sugar, or a ornamental bowl for serving fruit or desserts.
From French 'compote' (from Latin 'compositus': mixed or compound). The variant spelling 'compot' is archaic English for the same fruit dish.
Compote became wildly fashionable in 17th-century aristocratic Europe because it combined three status symbols: imported sugar (expensive), fruit (difficult to preserve), and the leisure time to prepare elaborate desserts.
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