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Every price tag was in every window, the fruiterer was a vision.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2023 Potential occupations listed included porter, mechanic, fisher and fruiterer.—
Livia Gershon,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 June 2021
Word History
Etymology
Middle English fruterer, borrowed from Anglo-French, doubly suffixed form of fruter "fruit-seller," from frut, fruitfruit entry 1 + -er-er entry 2