Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who sells fruit.
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- noun archaic A
woman who sellsfruit .
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Examples
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"For whom are you looking, my fine fellow?" asked the fruiteress on the opposite side.
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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Here again in the street is the toy-shop with its open front and store of mimic drums and halberds for the martial little burghers; here are the fruiteress with her stall of grapes and melons, the rat-catcher with his string of trophies, the fowler and his clap-net, the furrier with his stock of skins. "
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