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- noun Plural form of
hippophagist .
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It was a curious incident in the late history of the city that what had been a fashionable whim became a hard necessity -- that after Saint-Hilaire and the hippophagists had struggled to introduce horseflesh as regular provender, the siege of
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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The bones, clean picked, were easily identified, and the mid-day meal showed that there had been no change in the diet of these hippophagists: dinner and dejeuner had been alike -- drawn from the same larder.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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