“Comport” is for city dwellers only. I graduated from UConn with major in English Literature and consider myself to be fairly well read with a better than average vocabulary, but until the word appeared in this thread I had never seen it in print and never heard it being spoken.
I guess you didn't read much by Bulwer-Lytton.
“Bulwer-Lytton's works were well known in his time. He coined famous phrases like "pursuit of the almighty dollar”, “the pen is mightier than the sword”, “the great unwashed", and the opening phrase "it was a dark and stormy night.” -wikipedia
He used the word frequently in all of his novels, including Paul Clifford, of dark and stormy night renown.
As an English lit. major, skipping over Bulwer-Lytton shows discretion, but the word also show up in Jane Eyre. Were the Brontë sisters not deemed worthy of attention?