What is "fanciers"

Usage examples of "fanciers".

I have associated with several eminent fanciers, and have been permitted to join two of the London pigeon Clubs.

For instance, it is just possible, if our fantail-pigeons were all destroyed, that fanciers, by striving during long ages for the same object, might make a new breed hardly distinguishable from our present fantail.

Petersburg's circus fanciers, many of the troupers began to revise the favorable impressions they had first had of the city—and also of their deluxe accommodations.