compound-sentenced

Updated: May 15, 2025

I am sure there would be no trouble about the pompions being perceived, and I can fancy the modest half-pound of country vegetable blushing a deeper orange to find its name given to this ambitious and compound-sentenced concoction which helped to form part of the "simple diet of the good old times." Winthrop wrote of "potatose" in 1683. Their cultivation was rare.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England