fruitseller
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editfruitseller (plural fruitsellers)
- One who sells fruit.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates, Moffat, Yard and Company, published 1918, page 123:
- In the market‐place stand the fruitsellers, who sell all kinds of fruit: ripe figs, with their bruised purple flesh, melons, smelling of musk and yellow as topazes, citrons and rose‐apples and clusters of white grapes, round red‐gold oranges, and oval lemons of green gold.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fruitseller.
Synonyms
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editfruiterer — see fruiterer