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Lion-hunter   Listen
noun
lion-hunter  n.  
1.
Someone who tries to attract social lions as guests.
2.
Someone who hunts lions.





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"Lion-hunter" Quotes from Famous Books



... have cart-loads of self-respect. What I mean is, that Mrs. Ross is a bit of a lion-hunter, and she may take a fancy to ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black
... lady lived in Old Burlington Street, where she gave many parties, to persons of all nations, and contrived to bring together foreigners from the wilds of America, the Cape of Good Hope, and even savages from the isles of the Pacific; in fact, she was the notorious lion-hunter of her age. It was supposed that she had a peculiar ignorance of the laws of meum and tuum, and that her monomania was such that she would try to get possession of whatever she could place her hands upon; so that it was dangerous to leave in ...
— Reminiscences of Captain Gronow • Rees Howell Gronow
... fearless of danger, it was no idle compliment paid them by Louis Napoleon, when, in the winter of 1853-4, be said, "If the war break out, we must show our Zouaves to the Russians." They were a body trained in the school of a terrible experience of twenty-four years; they had learned, like the lion-hunter, Gerard, to take death by the mane, and look into his fiery eyes without blenching; they were fit for this service, which demanded the best nerve of the two most powerful nations of the world. What they did there ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various


Words linked to "Lion-hunter" :   hunter, social climber, huntsman


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