phillumenist
See also: Phillumenist
English
WOTD – 7 March 2012
Etymology
From phil- (“love of”) + Latin lumen (“light”) + -ist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪˈluːmənɪst/
Noun
phillumenist (plural phillumenists)
- A person who collects match-related items, like matchbox labels, matchboxes, matchbooks, or matchbook covers.
- 1948 May, Cruse, A. J., “I am a Phillumenist: Match-Box Labels as a Hobby”, in Chambers's Journal, page 238:
- There is a new and happy breed, the Phillumenists, better known as Match-box Label collectors.
- 1984, Hughes, Stephen, Pop Culture Mania: Collecting 20th-Century Americana for Fun and Profit, New York: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, OL 9249899M, page 207:
- To be a real phillumenist, however, requires that one take his assorted books and "shuck" them, "press" them, and then categorize them according to subject, era, size, and maker.
- 2012 January 23, Jonny Coyne as Edwin James, “Kit Nelson”, in Alcatraz, season 1, episode 3, written by Jennifer Johnson, 30:10 from the start:
- This matchbox is a Swedish safety match from the Jönköping match factory. It's manufactured in 1858, just in time for the American Civil War. I like it very much. I guess that makes me something of a phillumenist.
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Related terms
- phillumeny
Translations
collector
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