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Compo   Listen
noun
Compo  n.  (pl. compos)  Short for Composition; used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; as:
(a)
A mortar made of sand and cement.
(b)
A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices.
(c)
A composition for billiard balls.
(d)
A preparation of which printer's rollers are made.
(e)
A preparation used in currying leather.
(f)
Composition paid by a debtor.






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"Compo" Quotes from Famous Books



... bricklayers, against which unprofessional remonstrance is useless—an instinct that he fights against with difficulty whenever popular prejudice calls for full bricks on the face. So when the wall is not to be rendered in compo or plaster, he just shoves a few in, on the courses of stretchers, leaving every course of headers to a lifetime of effrontery. What does it matter to him? But it must be most painful to a conscientious ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan



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