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fruiterer

[ froo-ter-er ]

noun

Chiefly British.
  1. a dealer in fruit.


fruiterer

/ ˈڰːəə /

noun

  1. a fruit dealer or seller
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fruiterer1

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

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Sounds like being trapped inside a burning fruiterer’s.

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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.

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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.

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The cab stopped at a large, sparkling, plate-glassy shop—a very high-class fruiterer's and greengrocer's.

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