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English
Noun
fruit-tree (plural fruit-trees)
- Archaic form of fruit tree.
- 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees to which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning Fruit-Trees in Relation to Cider, London: Jo. Martyn & Ja. Allestry, “Kalendarium Hortense,” p. 10,
- Prune Fruit-trees, and Vines as yet; For now is your Season to bind, plash, naile, and dresse, without danger of Frost:
- 1842, Edward Villiers Rippingille, “Il Monte di Fato (The Mountain of Fate): Wanderings of a Painter in Italy” in Bentley’s Miscellany (American edition, Joseph Mason), volume 9, ed. William Harrison Ainsworth, page 406:
- Then comes a fine old castle, with its broad walls and square towers shooting up into the sky; then high banks of tall trees, with the verdant earth seen between; lower still, gardens filled with the luxuriant and varied greens of the artichoke, the pomadore, the finocchia, arched over with shrubs and fruit-trees, and topped by tall Oriental palms in full vigour and luxuriance.
1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Clifford and Phœbe”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 154:All her little womanly ways, budding out of her like blossoms on a young fruit-tree, had their effect on him, and sometimes caused his very heart to tingle with the keenest thrills of pleasure.