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Compound (as a group of Buildings)
I was Googling yesterday and ran across a sitecontaining the supposed etymology of certain wordswith an emphasis on Malay to English words. One that struckme was their claim that "Compound" as used to...
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SOED agrees. Anglo-Indian 1679, probably from Malay kampong enclosure. The enclosure within which a residence or factory (of Europeans) stands, in the East; also, any similar enclosure round native...
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