[1570–80; ‹ MF fruit(er) to bear fruit + -age-age]This word is first recorded in the period 1570–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: assimilate, deadhead, duster, skeleton, snag-age is a suffix typically forming mass or abstract nouns from various parts of speech,occurring originally in loanwords from French (voyage; courage) and productive in English with the meanings “aggregate” (coinage; peerage; trackage), “process” (coverage; breakage), “the outcome of” as either “the fact of” or “the physical effect or remains of”(seepage; wreckage; spoilage), “place of living or business” (parsonage; brokerage), “social standing or relationship” (bondage; marriage; patronage), and “quantity, measure, or charge” (footage; shortage; tonnage; towage)
Examples of 'fruitage' in a sentence
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Juice yield from matured fruitage achieved 62.40 %.
Beáta Stehlíková, Marcela Čuláková, Andrej Sinica, Lucia Kucelová, Ján Brindza 2013, 'Morphological, biochemical and sensory characteristics of black mulberry fruits (Morusnigra L.)', Potravinarstvohttp://www.potravinarstvo.com/journal1/index.php/potravinarstvo/article/view/234. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We defined basic biometrical, ecological and biological characteristics of hawthorns: height, crown diameter, levels of flowering, fruitage and life status.
Yu.S. Yukhimenko 2017, 'Collection of species of the genus Crataegus L. in Kryvyi Rih Botanical Garden ofthe NAS of Ukraine: creation history and contemporary state', Інтродукція Рослинhttp://plantintroduction.org/index.php/pi/article/view/93. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Development represents an ecolonomic phenomenon whose fruitage falls within the exigencies of 'harmony of integrated live integers'.
Constantin, POPESCU, Alexandru, TASNADI, Vasile-Miltiade, STANCIU 2014, 'FROM SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT. THE ECOLONOMIC PERSPECTIVE',Strategii Managerialehttp://www.strategiimanageriale.ro/papers/140402.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Then will music find its most splendid opportunity, and in our own free soil it will yield its richest fruitage.
Aubertine Woodward Moore For Every Music Lover (1902). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)