hippophile

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I have not that vicious and demoralizing love of horse-flesh which makes it next to impossible to find a perfectly honest hippophile.

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  1. A horse-lover; one who is addicted to horses; a horse-fancier. Nėxt to impossible to find a perfectly honest hippophile. O. W. Holmes, The Atlantic, LIX. 534.

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  1. from Greek ἵππος, horse, + φίλος, loving.
 

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