hippophagique

Updated: May 29, 2025

So long as a fair amount of ordinary butcher's meat could be procured, he did not complain; but when it came to eating horseflesh two or three times a week he could not undertake it, although, only a year or two previously, he had attended a great banquet hippophagique given in Paris, and had then even written favourably of viande de cheval in an article he prepared on the subject.

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly - My Days of Adventure : The Fall of France, 1870-71