Citations:fruitmonger

Noun: "one who sells fruit"

 * 1995 — Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling (2001), ISBN 0440418321, 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 9781101594643, 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 9780821759318, 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 9780385326278, 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 0618341536, 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 9780061252709, 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 9781442427266, 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 9780547739625, pages 133-134:
 * Will and the Duchess sat in the sunshine and shared an apple Will had nicked from a fruitmonger's stall.