English

Noun

fruitmonger ‎(plural fruitmongers)

1. One who sells fruit.
   • 1995, Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling (2001), ISBN 0440418321, pages 39-40:

     So he wanders through the market, between the old-clothes stalls and the fortune-paper stalls, the fruitmongers and the fried-fish seller, with his little dæmon on his shoulder, […]

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, The Penguin Press (1997), ISBN 9781101594643, unnumbered page:

     Dixon has brought a small apple from a fruitmonger's barrow, […]

   • 2012, Karen Cushman, Will Sparrow's Road, Clarion Books (2012), ISBN 9780547739625, pages 133-134:

     Will and the Duchess sat in the sunshine and shared an apple Will had nicked from a fruitmonger's stall.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:fruitmonger.

Synonyms

• fruiterer, fruitseller, coster, costermonger

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