hippophagism

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noun

The eating of horsemeat.

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Meanings

nounhippophagism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe eating of horsemeat.

    In Germany, he [Satan] has a horse's and not a cloven foot, because the horse was a frequent pagan sacrifice, and therefore associated with devil-worship under the new dispensation. Hence the horror of hippophagism which some French gastronomes are striving to overcome.

    1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, pages 109–110

Origin

From hippophage + -ism.

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