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Meanings of hothouse fruit in English

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Usage of hothouse fruit in English
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Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit.
The Governors
2
Aunt Betsy was pleased with the tribute of hothouse fruit, and even more gratified by that remark about summering horses.
The Golden Calf
3
Our table is not Lucullan, by any means; and we rarely have game out of season, hothouse fruit or many flowers.
The "Goldfish" / Being the Confessions af a Successful Man
4
There was a soft carpet upon the floor, Chippendale furniture, flowers, hothouse fruit, and on the mantelpiece-thephotograph of a man.
The Cinema Murder
5
Chippendale furniture, a Turkey carpet, roses in January, hothouse fruit, Bartolozzi prints, do not march with an income of fifty pounds a year.
The Cinema Murder
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And the inhabitants never work, for they can reach out and pick steamer baskets of the choicest hothouse fruit without gettin' out of bed.
Roads of Destiny
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Even Sir Frank Holster and his lady forgot their old quarrel, and came to inquire after Ellinor, and sent her hothouse fruit by the bushel.
A Dark Night's Work
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We can't afford a band of minstrels, or even the ordinary ices and hothouse fruits.
The Fortunes of the Farrells
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