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fruitique en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of fruit + boutique.

Meanings

1. An upmarket or trendy fruitshop.
   • A linguist would note with interest, rather than horror, the fact that you can have your hair washed and set in a glamorama in North Carolina, or your car oiled in a lubritorium in Sydney, or that you can buy apples at a fruitique in a trendy suburb of London. 2004, Jean Aitchison, Teach Yourself Linguistics:
   • Gustavsburg was like a seaside model village, there was a lilypond outside the Post Office where we bought some stamps (one mark! That's nearly 50 pence for a stamp!) and some fruit and vegetables at a chic fruitique close to a fountain. 1997, Bill Cooper, Laurel Cooper, Back Door to Byzantium: To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe, Sheridan House, →ISBN, page 58:
   • New Yorkers are crazy about organic produce and the more esoteric, the better, from pink banana pumpkins at a Greenwich Village fruitique to stinging nettle lasagna at the fantastic new Eataly indoor marketplace at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street. 2010 October 16, Susan Kurosawa, “New York's way with words”, in The Australian:

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