fruiterer

[ froo-ter-er ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. a dealer in fruit.

fruiterer

/ ˈfruːtərə /

noun

1. a fruit dealer or seller

Word History and Origins

Origin of fruiterer¹

1375–1425; late Middle English; extended form of fruiter

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, a cash crunch means that people can barely afford to buy anything, said Mohammad Zaman, 52, a fruiterer who was tending to the makeshift stall he had set up on the highway divider.

From Los Angeles Times

Sounds like being trapped inside a burning fruiterer’s.

From The Guardian

Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.

From Literature

There are, for example, the vegetable seller, and the fruiterer, and the peddler that deals exclusively in needles and threads and tapes.

From Project Gutenberg

The cab stopped at a large, sparkling, plate-glassy shop—a very high-class fruiterer's and greengrocer's.

From Project Gutenberg