hippophagism
English edit
Etymology edit
From hippophage + -ism.
Noun edit
hippophagism (uncountable)
- The eating of horsemeat.
- 1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, pages 109–110:
- 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.