fruiterer

American  

[froo-ter-er] / ˈfru tər ər /

noun

Chiefly British.

1. a dealer in fruit.

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fruiterer British  

/ ˈfruːtərə /

noun

1. a fruit dealer or seller

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Etymology

Origin of fruiterer

1375–1425; late Middle English; extended form of fruiter

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, a cash crunch means that people can barely afford to buy anything, said Mohammad Zaman, 52, a fruiterer who was tending to the makeshift stall he had set up on the highway divider.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2021

Now he has assets of $675,000,000 and, though no fruiterer, over 400 branches to ripen in California's business sun.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Inc. was bought by Transamerica, Mr. Armsby found himself working for his longtime California friend and oldtime fellow fruiterer, Amadeo Peter Giannini.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are, for example, the vegetable seller, and the fruiterer, and the peddler that deals exclusively in needles and threads and tapes.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)