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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French composture (“compost”), from late Old French composture, possibly from Latin compositūra, compostūra (“composition”); equivalent to compost + -ure. Compare Portuguese compostura, Spanish compostura.
Pronunciation
Noun
composture (countable and uncountable, plural compostures) (obsolete)
- Compost, composted manure.
1607, Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act 4 Scene 3:The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement, each thing's a thief.
- Composition, makeup, formation.
- A kind of plaster.
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