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Webster 1913 Edition
Fruiterer
Fruit′er-er
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
fruitier
.] One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fruiterer
FRUITERER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
fruiterer
fruiterer
English
Noun
fruiterer (plural fruiterers)
- 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.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act III, Scene 2,
Synonyms
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Translations
seller of fruit
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