From Fructu: locut. "De Fructu" represents all the minor expenses (fruit, service, etc.) incumbent on the person who, in the Middle Ages, lent his table for a snack for which each participant paid part of the cost. The term comes from a Latin legal expression: curare de fructu, “to take care of the fruit”.
Another explanation of this word associates it with the custom, which continued until the XNUMXth century among the notables, of receiving the clergy on Christmas Eve: the meal, taken after...
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