hippophagy
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- hippophagous adjective
Etymology
Origin of hippophagy
Example Sentences
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U.S. hippophagy seems to have reached its high point during and shortly after World War II, because of domestic shortages of other, more conventional meats.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2011
While Americans wanted no part of hippophagy, they were perfectly willing to supply the raw materials.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2011
Horse-eating, or hippophagy, became popular in Europe in the 19th century, when famines caused several governments to license horse butcheries.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2011
M. Gagne, who has already provided the Parisians with amusement for years, in his capacity as a perpetual candidate for parliamentary honours, does not stop at hippophagy; he seriously proposes anthropophagy.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
There is heroism as well as vulgarity in laughter saluting death and patience, hippophagy and cannibalism, ugliness and deprivation.
From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.
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