contoir

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Middle French

Noun

contoir m (plural contoirs)

  1. Alternative spelling of comptoir
    • 1549, Geoffroy Tory, L' art et la science de la vraye proportion des lettres attiques:
      Le bras de la dicte lettre qui est plus large, la voye de volupté: & le bras plus estroit, la voye de vertuz, afin qu'en saciez un Festin pendu en l'estude & contoir de vostre bonne memoire, & vertueuse contemplation.
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