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fruitery|ˈfruːtərɪ|
Also 7 frut(e)ry.
[ad. Fr. fruiterie, f. fruit fruit.]
†1. A place for growing or storing fruit. Obs.
1609Patent 7 Jas. I in Act 5 Geo. III, c. 26. Preamble, Dove-houses, orchards, fruiteries, gardens, lofts, cottages. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v., You must be careful in cleaning and sweeping your Fruitery often. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) I. 161, I must next conduct you from the garden into the orchard and fruitery.
2. Fruit collectively; a crop of fruit. Now rare.
16..Sylvester Du Bartas (N.), He sowde and planted in his proper grange (Upon som savage stock) som frutry strange. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiv. 229 Where full Pomona seemes most plentiously to flowe, And with her fruitery swells by Pershore in her pride. 1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 27 Indeed she had manifested a prodigious prodigality, and she afforded a Shambles to her Frutery. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. 35 Oft, notwithstanding all thy Care To help thy Plants, when the small Fruit'ry seems Exempt from Ills, an oriental Blast Disastrous flies. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 491 Dealing with him in all sorts of fishery and fruitery for..her shop. |