"elephantophile" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From elephant + -o- + -phile.",
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        {
          "ref": "1929, Time, page 64",
          "text": "But more and most he enjoyed, as he always does, going down to see the elephants; finding Babe, his favorite elephant; patting her, complimenting her, feeding her bread, peanuts, carrots. A bachelor, Mr. Brush is a consistent elephantophile.",
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        {
          "ref": "1953 September 24, Norm Hacking, “Best Known Coast Skipper On Last Voyage”, in The Vancouver Province, 56th year, number 152, Vancouver, B.C., page 27",
          "text": "The crew of the States Steamship Line’s SS. Washington, now in port, are all elephantophiles … (elephant-lovers to you).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Mother Jones, page 42",
          "text": "He prefers the company of elephantophiles because elephants are his favorite topic of conversation, although Ada’s family, including the cats, once rolled up at Bucky’s for an extended visit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980 March 23, “King Elephant Is in the Swim”, in The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine, volume 30, number 91, Atlanta, Ga., page 10",
          "text": "Call the Kings elephantophiles, a condition that began February 12, 1964, with a four-foot-high plush elephant named Twinkles.",
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        {
          "ref": "1986, T. H. Clarke, The Rhinoceros from Dürer to Stubbs, 1515-1799, Sotheby’s Publications, page 157",
          "text": "There is, perhaps fortunately for elephantophiles, no graphic record of this shameful scene, which did nothing to discourage belief in the accepted classical myth.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 February 4, Debates: Official Report (Hansard), Canada, Parliament, Senate, page 2647",
          "text": "Now, the elephant and the mouse. Senator Cogger obviously is an “elephantophile”—he loves elephants. I have a weakness for mice.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Letizia Gaeta, La scultura meridionale in età moderna nei suoi rapporti con la circolazione mediterranea, page 308",
          "text": "For Sigismondo’s nearest rival as an elephantophile monarch was to be King Manuel the Fortunate of Portugal (1495-1521).",
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        }
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        "One who loves elephants."
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        {
          "ref": "1929, Time, page 64",
          "text": "But more and most he enjoyed, as he always does, going down to see the elephants; finding Babe, his favorite elephant; patting her, complimenting her, feeding her bread, peanuts, carrots. A bachelor, Mr. Brush is a consistent elephantophile.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1953 September 24, Norm Hacking, “Best Known Coast Skipper On Last Voyage”, in The Vancouver Province, 56th year, number 152, Vancouver, B.C., page 27",
          "text": "The crew of the States Steamship Line’s SS. Washington, now in port, are all elephantophiles … (elephant-lovers to you).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Mother Jones, page 42",
          "text": "He prefers the company of elephantophiles because elephants are his favorite topic of conversation, although Ada’s family, including the cats, once rolled up at Bucky’s for an extended visit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980 March 23, “King Elephant Is in the Swim”, in The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine, volume 30, number 91, Atlanta, Ga., page 10",
          "text": "Call the Kings elephantophiles, a condition that began February 12, 1964, with a four-foot-high plush elephant named Twinkles.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, T. H. Clarke, The Rhinoceros from Dürer to Stubbs, 1515-1799, Sotheby’s Publications, page 157",
          "text": "There is, perhaps fortunately for elephantophiles, no graphic record of this shameful scene, which did nothing to discourage belief in the accepted classical myth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 February 4, Debates: Official Report (Hansard), Canada, Parliament, Senate, page 2647",
          "text": "Now, the elephant and the mouse. Senator Cogger obviously is an “elephantophile”—he loves elephants. I have a weakness for mice.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Letizia Gaeta, La scultura meridionale in età moderna nei suoi rapporti con la circolazione mediterranea, page 308",
          "text": "For Sigismondo’s nearest rival as an elephantophile monarch was to be King Manuel the Fortunate of Portugal (1495-1521).",
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        }
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        "One who loves elephants."
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