Citations:fruitmonger

English citations of fruitmonger

Noun: "one who sells fruit"

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• 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, […]

• 1998 — Joy Reed, The Duke and Miss Denny, Zebra Books (1998), →ISBN, page 29:

  The hat which Lady Spicer had admired was so loaded with cherries, plums, and other orchard produce as to resemble a fruitmonger's cart in Miss Denny's eyes, […]

• 1999 — Donna Jo Napoli, Crazy Jack, Delacorte Press (1999), →ISBN, page 23:

  Fruitmongers usually need help carrying stock here and there, and they pay in fruit.

• 2003 — Barbara Croft, Moon's Crossing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2003), →ISBN, page 44:

  The policeman had lifted an apple for the girl from a fruitmonger and sat on the bed in the hotel, watching her eat.

• 2008 — Jeffrey Hantover, The Jewel Trader of Pegu, Harper Perennial (2009), →ISBN, page 27:

  What Win takes for granted without pause—touching, squeezing, and sampling the fruitmonger's offerings—are gifts for me to savor.

• 2012 — William Alexander, Goblin Secrets, Margaret K. McElderry (2012), →ISBN, page 112:

  The lone fruitmonger displayed baskets of sad-looking apples on a countertop, and didn't bother to announce them with a shout or a chant.

• 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.