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Middle French
Noun
contoir m (plural contoirs)
- 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)