frutage

Compare fruitage.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹuːtəd͡ʒ/

frutage (plural frutages)

1. (obsolete) A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.
   • 1644 November 27 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, , 2nd edition, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Henry Colburn, ; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, , published 1819, →OCLC:

     The cornices above consist of frutages and festoons.

2. (obsolete) A confection made of fruit.
   • a. 1555, David Lyndsay, The Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum:

     With wyld foull, venisoun, and wyne,
     With tairt, and flam, and frutage fyne

   • 1603, A true Accompt of the Baptism of Prince Henry Frederick :

     Upon this Chariot was finely and artificially deviſed, a ſumptuous covered Table, decked with all Sorts of exquisſite Delicates and Dainties, of Patiſſerie, Frutages, and Confections.

• “frutage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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