composture

noun
/kəmˈpɒst͡ʃə/UK/kəmˈpɑst͡ʃɚ/US

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.

  1. derived from compositūra
  2. derived from composture
  3. borrowed from composture — “compost

Definitions

  1. Compost, composted manure.

    • 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.
  2. Composition, makeup, formation.

  3. A kind of plaster.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for composture. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA