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toxophilites

toxophilites is the plural of toxophilite.

Meaning of toxophilite

Noun

toxophilite (plural toxophilites)

  1. Someone keen on or an expert at archery; a lover or practitioner of archery.
    • Here the gardens of the place encroached with a somewhat wide sweep upon the paddock, and gave ample room for the doings of the toxophilites. Miss Thorne got together such daughters of Diana as could bend a bow, and marshalled them to the targets.1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 100

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Questions about toxophilites

What is toxophilites the plural of?
Toxophilites is the plural of toxophilite.

Words near toxophilites in the dictionary

  1. toxophile
  2. toxophiliac
  3. toxophiliacs
  4. toxophilism
  5. toxophilite
  6. toxophilites
  7. toxophilitic
  8. toxophilous
  9. toxophily
  10. toxophore
  11. toxophores

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