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fruiterer|ˈfruːtərə(r)|
[extended form of prec.: see -er1 3.]
1. A dealer in fruit; a fruit-seller.
1408Close Roll 9 Hen. IV b, Thomas Sebeche, ffruterer. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. Ss j b, The frewte..on the frewterers hande lying. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 36 The very same-day did I fight with one Sampson Stock⁓fish, a Fruiterer. 1650Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples i. (1664) 12 Telling the fruiterers that they should pay the gabell. 1720Gay Poems (1745) I. 167 Walnuts the fruiterer's hand, in autumn stain. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) I. 75 Amongst the handsomest shops were the fruiterers'. 1875Hamerton Intell. Life ix. i. 301 Careful as a fruiterer is of the bloom upon his grapes.
†2. A fruit-grower. Obs.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xviii. 298 The Pear-maine..Which carefull frut'rers now have denizend our owne. 1615W. Lawson Orch. & Gard. iii. i. (1668) 1 Whosoever desireth..to have a pleasant and profitable Orchard, must provide himself of a fruiterer..Skilful in that faculty. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 255 Most of our best apples are supposed to have been introduced into Britain by a fruiterer of Henry the Eighth. |