hippogastronomyn.
/ˌhɪpə(ʊ)ɡaˈstrɒnəmi/, U.S. /ˌhɪpoʊˌɡæˈstrɑnəmi/ Chiefly humorous. Now rare.
The practice or art of cooking and eating horsemeat. Cf. hippophagy n.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > eating horseflesh
hippophagy1823
hippophagism1856
hippogastronomy1860
1860 All Year Round 22 Sept. 575 Our French friends' late experiments in hippogastronomy.
1868 Echoes from Clubs 12 Feb. 248/2 In future the appointments of Master of the Horse and Equerry shall only be conferred on persons who have undergone a complete course of Hippo-gastronomy.
2006 Texas Monthly (Nexis) Dec. The last bastion of unapologetic hippogastronomy in the U.S. may have been the Harvard Faculty Club, where horse meat was a menu fixture from the end of World War II until 1983.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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