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English
Etymology
From γαλακτοφάγος (galaktophágos, “milk-fed”).
Adjective
galactophagous (not comparable)
- (rare) Consuming milk.
1913, John Bagnell Bury, editor, The Cambridge Medieval History, page 432:The oldest explicit information concerning a Nomado-Slavic State on the lower Danube is to be found in Pseudo-Caesarius of the Nazianzus of the sixth – probably even the fourth – century A.D., viz. that of the galactophagous Phisonitae or Danubians […] and the vegetarian Slavs.
1918, George Rapall Noyes, quoting Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy, letter to Fet, page 141:I am reading Herodotus, who describes in detail and with great fidelity these same galactophagous Scythians among whom I am living.
1997 January 12, Craig Helfgott, “Re: Ok, time to stand up”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):Of course, we may not have the same taste in teas, as I am one of the few (the proud, the galactophagous) that adds milk to tea.