fruitmonger en · NOUN
Etymology
From fruit + monger.
Meanings
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One who sells fruit.
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, […]
1995, Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling, published 2001, →ISBN, pages 39–40:Will and the Duchess sat in the sunshine and shared an apple Will had nicked from a fruitmonger's stall.
2012, Karen Cushman, Will Sparrow's Road, Clarion Books, →ISBN, pages 133–134:Dixon has brought a small apple from a fruitmonger's barrow, […]
1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 699:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fruitmongers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |