fruitmonger
English
Noun
fruitmonger (plural fruitmongers)
- One who sells fruit.
- 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, […]
- 2012, Karen Cushman, Will Sparrow's Road, Clarion Books (2012), →ISBN, pages 133-134:
- Will and the Duchess sat in the sunshine and shared an apple Will had nicked from a fruitmonger's stall.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:fruitmonger.
- 1995, Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling (2001), →ISBN, pages 39-40:
Synonyms
Translations
fruiterer — see fruiterer
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