fruit, n.m., fruit; dessert; offspring; advantage, benefit, profit; utility; effect, result; (mas.) batter. — hâtif; early fruit. — indigène; native fruit. — tardif; late fruit. — à noyau; stone fruit. — à pépin; kernel fruit. Avec —; profitably. — sec; (school) blockhead, dunce. Tirer du — de; to derive benefit from.
fruité, -e, adj., (her.) fructed.
fruiterie (frui-trî), n.f., fruit-loft, fruit-trade.
fruiti-er, -ère, adj., fruit, fruit-bearing. Arbre —; fruit-tree. Jardin —; orchard, fruit garden.
fruiti-er, n.m., -ère, n.f., fruiterer, green-grocer; fruit-woman.
fruition, n.f., fruition, enjoyment.
frusquin, n.m., (triv.) one’s all. Son saint —; one’s all; all one’s toggery.
fruste, adj., worn, defaced, corroded (of coins). n.m., defaced effigy.
frustratoire, adj., frustratory.
frustrer, v.a., to defraud, to frustrate, to disappoint, to baulk, to foil; to baffle. Il a frustré ses créanciers; he has defrauded his creditors.