Obs. [a. F. compère, a godfather in relation to the godmother, and to the actual father and mother of a child; hence, male gossip, fellow, familiar, intimate:—L. compater: cf. COMPERAGE, COMPEER 2.]
1738. Common Sense (1739), II. 151. In France, there was scarce an Old Gentleman … without a Mistress, nor a Married Woman who had not her Compere as well as her Galant.
