fruiterer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fruiterer
1375–1425; late Middle English; extended form of fruiter
Example Sentences
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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
Sounds like being trapped inside a burning fruiterer’s.
From The Guardian
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 Literature
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There are, for example, the vegetable seller, and the fruiterer, and the peddler that deals exclusively in needles and threads and tapes.
From Project Gutenberg
The cab stopped at a large, sparkling, plate-glassy shop—a very high-class fruiterer's and greengrocer's.
From Project Gutenberg
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