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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ailurophile

"cat lover," 1931, from Greek ailouros "cat," which is of unknown origin, + -phile.

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ailurophile

n. A person with ailurophilia; a cat-lover.

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But now, at this very instant, by Death's crooked, dark-alleyed plotting hidden almost but not quite from himself, the thin wrists of the benign monarch of Lankhmar were being pricked in innocent play by his favoritest cat's needle-sharp claws, which had by a jealous, thin-nosed nephew of the royal ailurophile been late last night envenomed with the wind-swift poison of the rare emperor snake of tropical Klesh.