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Definition of Turfite
1. n. A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg.
Definition of Turfite
1. Noun. (colloquial dated) A votary of the turf, or racecourse. ¹
2. Noun. (colloquial dated) A blackleg, or notorious gambler. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Turfite
1. a devotee of horse racing [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turfite
Literary usage of Turfite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Club Makers and Club Members by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1914)
"CLUBMEN, IN TOWN AND COUNTRY The she-turfite and her nineteenth-century ancestresses —
The primitive clubwoman and her strange contrast to the clubwoman of ..."
2. Club Makers and Club Members by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1914)
"CLUBMEN, IN TOWN AND COUNTRY The she-turfite and her nineteenth-century
ancestresses—The primitive clubwoman and her strange contrast to the clubwoman of ..."
3. Life in Victoria: Or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, Showing the by William Kelly (1859)
"... Equestrian Ideas—Auctioneers' Profits—Horse planting—Estimate of Horse
Keep—Encounter an English turfite late from the Levant—His Antipodean Ideas—The ..."
4. Randolph Spencer-Churchill, as a Product of His Age: Being a Personal and by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1895)
"LORD RANDOLPH ON TURF AND TOWN (1885). The Marden Park Yearlings' sale on the
day after the Conservative triumph.—Lord Randolph as a turfite and Lord ..."
5. Society in the New Reign by George Washburn Smalley, Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1904)
"... beauty of our days — The divorce court that of the twentieth-century she-turfite—
Functions of Sir George Lewis in smart society—Divorce à la mode. ..."
6. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1897)
"By 'AN OLD turfite.' £HEN the memories of people of the present generation get
a little hazy, they will no doubt remark ' As Shakespeare says, " Some people ..."
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