Meanings
- not comparableAppropriate or pleasing to ailurophiles.
She dies, he dies. They become transfigured in some sort of ailurophiliac heaven and live happily ever after.
1989, Nicolas Slonimsky, Lectionary of Music, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 1262 more examples
The year 1927 also produced a splendidly ailurophiliac Black Cat, with woodcuts by Gyula Zilzer, in Middle European style.
1981, American Book Collector, volume 2, Moretus Press, page 15Gautier’s love of cats was notable even in his ailurophiliac time and place: Nadar made a famous caricature of him sitting plump and happy in his study with a crowd of cats occupying every inch of available space.
2001, Katharine M. Rogers, The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 24 May 2011, page 95
Origin
- Ancient Greekαἴλουρος
- Englishailurophiliac
From ailuro- (“cat”, from Ancient Greek αἴλουρος (aílouros)) + -philiac.
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