fruitage

English

Etymology

From fruit + -age.

Noun

fruitage (countable and uncountable, plural fruitages)

  1. Fruit, collectively.
    • 1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, The Giving of the Bible to the Esquimaux, page 10:
      For them no spring, with gentle care, / Paints the young bud and scents the air; / Nor autumn bids the loaded stem / Scatter its fruitage fair for them.
    • 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Hesperides”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, [], →OCLC, stanza IV, page 106:
      The luscious fruitage clustereth mellowly, / Goldenkernelled, goldencored, / Sunset-ripened above on the tree.
  2. Product or result of any action, effect, good, or ill.

Further reading

  • fruitage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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