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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin compōtātiō. Equivalent to com- + potation.
Noun
compotation (countable and uncountable, plural compotations)
- (archaic) The social act of drinking together.
1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:the fashion of compotation
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