Also 7 frut(e)ry. [ad. Fr. fruiterie, f. fruit FRUIT.]
† 1. A place for growing or storing fruit. Obs.
1609. Patent 7 Jas. I., in Act 5 Geo. III., c. 26. Preamble, Dove-houses, orchards, fruiteries, gardens, lofts, cottages.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v., You must be careful in cleaning and sweeping your Fruitery often.
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.
2. Fruit collectively; a crop of fruit. Now rare.
16[?]. Sylvester, Du Bartas, Judith.
He sowde and planted in his proper grange | |
(Vpon som sauage stock) som frutry strange. |
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xiv. 229.
Where full Pomona seemes most plentiously to flowe, | |
And with her fruitery swells by Pershore in her pride. |
1656. S. Holland, Don Zara (1719), 27. Indeed she had manifested a prodigious prodigality, had she afforded a Shambles to her Frutery.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder, II. 35.
Oft, notwithstanding all thy Care | |
To help thy Plants, when the small Fruitry seems | |
Exempt from Ills, an oriental Blast | |
Disastrous flies. |
1828. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. (1863), 491. Dealing with him in all sorts of fishery and fruitery for her shop.