Citations:fruitseller
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English citations of fruitseller
Noun: "one who sells fruit"
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- 1891 — Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates, Moffat, Yard and Company (1918), page 123:
- In the market‐place stand the fruitsellers, who sell all kinds of fruit: ripe figs, with their bruised purple flesh, melons, smelling of musk and yellow as topazes, citrons and rose‐apples and clusters of white grapes, round red‐gold oranges, and oval lemons of green gold.
- 2003 — Ruskin Bond, Rusty: The Boy from the Hills, Puffin Book (2003), →ISBN, page 46:
- The scooter swerved into a fruit stall and came to a standstill under a heap of bananas, while the scooterist found himself in the arms of an indignant fruitseller.
- 2007 — William Higham, The Hammarskjold Killing, Lulu.com (2007), →ISBN, page 94:
- Next to it, a kagon roof jutted almost into the street and, beneath it, the fruitseller's boxes were empty.
- 2007 — Jean Howard, Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642, University of Pennsylvania Press (2009), →ISBN, page 37:
- For example, women fruitsellers were frequently prosecuted for causing annoyance at the entrance to the Exchange; […]
- 2008 — Peter Manseau, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, Free Press (2008), →ISBN, page 100:
- He kept daring me to steal an apple from the fruitseller's wagon.