While surnames are usually one word, in some cases, known as compound surnames, a surname comprises more than one word.
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Famous quotes containing the word compound:
“Rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)