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Dealer in apples and pears?
Answer for the clue "Dealer in apples and pears? ", 9 letters:
fruiterer
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Word definitions for fruiterer in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who sells fruit
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who sells fruit.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Many years ago several small businesses flourished, besides farming; a cobbler, fishmonger, fruiterer , village store and butcher. ▪ Mary Lowther, a fruiterer who runs a shop in Skinnergate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fruiterer \Fruit"er*er\, n. [Cf. F. fruitier.] One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
Usage examples of fruiterer.
Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York every Monday these same oranges, and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.
He was soon drest, and they sallied forth together into Covent-Garden, where the greengrocers and fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers, just come in from the country.
The fruiterer at the corner had put out the blazing glory of his oranges and lemons, and Brett Place was all darkness, interspersed with the misty halos of the few lamps defining its triangular shape, with a cluster of three lights on one stand in the middle.
Around the dry hollow of Lake Pelluce in the center of Andelainscion, olden fruiterer to the Land: five leagues.