1995 — Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling (2001), →ISBN, pages 39-40:
So he wanders through the market, between the old-clothes stalls and the fortune-paper stalls, the fruitmongers and the fried-fish seller, with his little dæmon on his shoulder, […]
1997 — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, The Penguin Press (1997), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Dixon has brought a small apple from a fruitmonger's barrow, […]
1998 — Joy Reed, The Duke and Miss Denny, Zebra Books (1998), →ISBN, page 29:
The hat which Lady Spicer had admired was so loaded with cherries, plums, and other orchard produce as to resemble a fruitmonger's cart in Miss Denny's eyes, […]
1999 — Donna Jo Napoli, Crazy Jack, Delacorte Press (1999), →ISBN, page 23:
Fruitmongers usually need help carrying stock here and there, and they pay in fruit.