- a variation of medalist.
medallist
Britishnoun
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a designer, maker, or collector of medals
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sport a winner or recipient of a medal or medals
Example Sentences
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Gold Medallist of this and that Academy and University abroad—does not "see" him as a soldier or a non-commissioned officer in the British Army: law-student is a more likely qualification.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir
"Medallist, one curious in medals; Metallist, one skilled in metals."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Had he not been afterwards Senior Wrangler, First Chancellor’s Medallist and I do not know how many more things besides?
From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel
The friend to whom these verses were addressed was Joseph William Blakesley, third Classic and Senior Chancellor's Medallist in 1831, and afterwards Dean of Lincoln.
From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton
"Medallist might put him on the scent, if he is so dreadfully wary," said Lenoir.
From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Hemyng, Bracebridge
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