fruiterern.
/ˈfruːt(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈfrudərər/ 1. A dealer in fruit; a fruit-seller.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit
fruiterer1408
apple seller1440
fruitera1483
costard-jagger?1518
costermonger?1518
apple-monger1540
pippin-monger1607
oporopolist1671
fructster1688
orange merchant1693
coster1851
pearly king1902
pearly1917
1408 Close Roll 9 Hen. IV b Thomas Sebeche, ffruterer.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie Ss j b The frewte..on the frewterers hande lying.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 31 The very same day did I fight with one Samson Stockefish a Fruiterer . View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Hist. Revol. Naples (1664) i. 12 Telling the fruiterers that they should pay the gabell.
1720 J. Gay Trivia ii, in Poems I. 173 Wallnuts the fruit'rer's hand, in autumn, stain.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul Introd. 56 Amongst the handsomest shops were the fruiterers.
1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) ix. i. 301 Careful as a fruiterer is of the bloom upon his grapes.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > one who
fruiterer1612
pomarist1688
orchardist1794
orchardman1796
fruitist1824
pomologist1826
fruiter1887
pomiculturist1895
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 298 The Pear-maine..Which carefull Frut'rers now haue denizend our owne.
1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden i. 1 Whosoeuer desireth..to haue a pleasant, and profitable Orchard, must..prouide himselfe of a Fruicterer..skilfull in that facultie.
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 222 Most of our best apples are supposed to have been introduced into Britain by a fruiterer of Henry the Eighth.
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