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fruiterer ‎(plural fruiterers)

1. One who sells fruit.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act III, Scene 2,

     […] the very same day did I fight with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's Inn.

   • 1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Chapter 28,

     And Knight laughed, and drew her close and kissed her the second time, which operations he performed with the carefulness of a fruiterer touching a bunch of grapes so as not to disturb their bloom.

   • 1962, Es'kia Mphahlele, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, The African Image, Chapter 5, p. 70,

     A good few Indian fruiterers who were right in the centre of Johannesburg never made the 'mistake' of serving a black man, or even another Indian, before a white customer, no matter who had come first.

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