toxophilite

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Why 'tis our young toxophilite, our ARCHER bold and true,

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  1. A student or lover of archery; one who practises archery, or who studies history and archæology of archery.
  2. Same as toxophilitic. What causes young people … to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some “desirable” young man with those killing bows and arrows of theirs? Thackeray, Vanity Fair, iii.

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  • Why 'tis our young toxophilite, our ARCHER bold and true, —  Sagittulae, Random Verses
  • His answers, his bearing, his generosity, his beauty, and his wit, inspired all his new toxophilite friends with interest and curiosity, and they longed to see whether his skill with the bow corresponded with their secret sympathies for him. —  Burlesques
  • What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some "desirable" young man with those killing bows and arrows of theirs? —  Vanity Fair
  • It seemed to Caldigate as though all the bows and all the arrows had been kept specially for him, -- as though he was the great toxophilite of the age, -- whereas no man could have cared less for the amusement than he. —  John Caldigate
  • Are you a toxophilite, by the way No, sir. —  AHMM,June2008
 

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  1. from Greek τόξον a bow, + φιλεῖν, love, + -ite (cf. Greek φιλητής, a lover).
 

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