hippophilen.adj.

1852 Fraser's Mag. 45 535 That sympathy with the horses..felt..by the English hippophile.

1887 O. W. Holmes 100 Days Europe ii. 60 I have not that vicious and demoralizing love of horseflesh which makes it next to impossible to find a perfectly honest hippophile.

1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 2/3 The most prejudiced hippophil does not object to the auto-car so long as it does not try to run amok.

1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 3/3 The young hippophile who has become a little jaded with the usual ‘pony’ story will find here something more..absorbing.

1983 RUSI Jrnl. 128 73 The post-Cardwell cavalry officers..were not in fact the drawling, moronic hippophils of caricature.

2001 New Statesman 5 Feb. 6/1 A confirmed hippophile, she asked him, ‘Aimez-vous les chevaux?’ to which his reply was: ‘Oui, avec les frites.’ There was silence.

1866 ‘J. Larwood’ & J. C. Hotten Hist. Signboards iv. 171 Frequently the sign of the Horse is accompanied by the following hippophile advice:—‘Up hill hurry me not..; and in the stable I'm not forgot.’

1897 Baily's Mag. Sept. 175/2 A thoroughbred Kentucky horse, which he had brought with him from the blue-grass region of that hippophile state.

1906 Amer. Anthropologist 8 190/2 The Navaho..is hippophile and philocanine, is an excellent artisan, and possesses intelligence of a good order.

1970 Time 12 Oct. 36/2 Britain's Royal Family continues to be as hippophile as ever. Princess Anne recently took time off..to compete in a series of equestrian events.

2013 P. M. Eatwell They eat Horses don't They? i. 30 Cheaper than other meat and shunned by hippophile aristocrats, horsemeat was always working-class fare.