toxophilite

Meanings

Adjective

Noun

  • Someone keen on or an expert at archery; a lover or practitioner of archery.

Origin

  • From Toxophilus, the title of a 1545 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τοξον + φίλος -ite.

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