Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fruit collectively.
- noun A fruit-loft; a repository for fruit.
- noun A fruit-house, or hothouse for raising fruit; a fruit-garden or orchard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.
- noun A repository for fruit.
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Examples
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There's a little butcher shop near my house, and generally speaking, I love to buy food this way: cheese from the cheeserie, bread from the bakery, fruit from the fruitery...it's all so much more fresh and wonderful.
Archive 2007-05-01 Jay 2007
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There's a little butcher shop near my house, and generally speaking, I love to buy food this way: cheese from the cheeserie, bread from the bakery, fruit from the fruitery...it's all so much more fresh and wonderful.
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He desired an estate, he studied a profession, he amused himself with useful arts, he loved a farm, a garden, an orchard, a fruitery, an apiary; and occasionally, to do the work proper to them all himself; and he did it well.
The History of Dartmouth College Baxter Perry Smith 1856
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"He must have indulged over freely in those citrons," said Mohi, sympathetically rubbing his fruitery.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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After exhausting their bottle, in which they were assisted to the extent of one glass by their host, who drank Mr. von Philipson's health with cordiality, they assented to Mr. Beckendorff's proposition of visiting his fruitery.
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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a chamber for accounts, a table, pantry, kitchen, and wine-cellars, a fruitery, a fourrière, a common kitchen, a cabinet, a council; [2109] she would feel that she was not a princess without all this.
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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