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• n  wood of various fruit trees (as apple or cherry or pear) used especially in cabinetwork

• Furniture is no problem: since her parents' new residence in Washington comes furnished, Julie has scavenged their Manhattan apartment for everything from her father's fruitwood .
• She is preoccupied with what a sudden half-million dollars will buy for refugees from a Manhattan walk-upa rambling house in suburbia, a grove of fruitwood furniture, a set of .
• Later when the price of good American pieces had mounted sky high and the chance of picking up bargains had vanished, canny dealers supplemented their stocks with the fruitwood .