obs. variants of COMPARTMENT, esp. in senses pertaining to Heraldry, Art, Architecture and Gardening.
1590. R. W[ilson], Three Lords & Ladies Lond., I. in Hazl., Dodsley, VI. 461. Their shields impress’d with gilt copartiments.
1623. Webster, Devil’s Law Case, I. ii. As black copartiments [orig. ed. copartaments] show gold more bright.
1639. Cade, Serm. for these Times, Ded. 1. The cloisters farily pargetted and beautified with comely copartments and inscriptions of wise counsels and sentences.
1793. W. Hodges, Trav. India, 121. Mosaics of different coloured marbles, inlaid in copartments.
1814. Scott, Wav., lxiii. in one copartment of this oldfashioned garden.
