Also 7 frut(e)ry. [ad. Fr. fruiterie, f. fruit FRUIT.]

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  † 1.  A place for growing or storing fruit. Obs.

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1609.  Patent 7 Jas. I., in Act 5 Geo. III., c. 26. Preamble, Dove-houses, orchards, fruiteries, gardens, lofts, cottages.

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1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v., You must be careful in cleaning and sweeping your Fruitery often.

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1816.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1843), I. 161. I must next conduct you from the garden into the orchard and fruitery; and here you will find the same enemies still more busy and successful in their attempts to do us hurt.

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  2.  Fruit collectively; a crop of fruit. Now rare.

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16[?].  Sylvester, Du Bartas, Judith.

        He sowde and planted in his proper grange
(Vpon som sauage stock) som frutry strange.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xiv. 229.

        Where full Pomona seemes most plentiously to flowe,
And with her fruitery swells by Pershore in her pride.

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1656.  S. Holland, Don Zara (1719), 27. Indeed she had manifested a prodigious prodigality, had she afforded a Shambles to her Frutery.

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1708.  J. Philips, Cyder, II. 35.

                    Oft, notwithstanding all thy Care
To help thy Plants, when the small Fruit’ry seems
Exempt from Ills, an oriental Blast
Disastrous flies.

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1828.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. (1863), 491. Dealing with him in all sorts of fishery and fruitery for … her shop.

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