Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pictured or sculptured representation of fruit.
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Examples
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"You and Phil are, that is, to buy shoes and ships and sealing-wax, and a chair for my room that won't fall down when I sit in it, and crockery ware -- and I guarantee you'll come home with a parlor organ and a wax fruit-piece under a glass case."
The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947
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Stevenson grants to the Metropolitan Museum a fruit-piece by Velasquez.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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"This hanging was copied from a fruit-piece that I painted some time since, and had executed here in mosaic.
The Emperor — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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"This hanging was copied from a fruit-piece that I painted some time since, and had executed here in mosaic.
The Emperor — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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"This hanging was copied from a fruit-piece that I painted some time since, and had executed here in mosaic.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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"This hanging was copied from a fruit-piece that I painted some time since, and had executed here in mosaic.
The Emperor — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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"This hanging was copied from a fruit-piece that I painted some time since, and had executed here in mosaic.
The Emperor — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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