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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Divided into a line of squares of alternating tinctures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, postpositional
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: gobony
Antonyms: none provided
History
From French componé, from Old French compondre, from Latin compōnere (“put together, arrange, compile”). Cognate with English compose, compound.
