iconophile

[ahy-kon-uh-fahyl]

noun

1. a connoisseur of icons or images.

Other Word Forms

• iconophilism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of iconophile¹

First recorded in 1880–85; icono- + -phile

Example Sentences

The provincial bookbinder whose work, with its dirty, warped boards, simpers under a covering of sheep still hairy and spotted with patches of ink, is in much the same class as a cheap glazer and gilder to whom an amateur iconophile might naively send for restoration a rare Albert Durer; and both these similar to an architect who, with blind decision, would be sent to mutilate the flanks of some majestic cathedral.

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