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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• figurate