What's the difference between fruiterer and fruitseller?

Fruiterer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).

Fruitseller


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The death of Khaled Said has been compared to that of Mohammed Bouazizi, the fruitseller whose self-immolation sparked the Tunisian revolution that began the chain of Arab Spring protests.
  • (2) On the night of the attack, the three men and the teenager were joined by two other local men, a fruitseller and a part-time gym assistant.

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