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Medallist   Listen
noun
Medalist  n.  (Written also medallist)  
1.
A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals.
2.
A designer of medals.
3.
One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit; as, the gold medalist in downhill skiing.





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"Medallist" Quotes from Famous Books



... Carrick, Murphy, Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Foote, and other men of talent: the tables and books of the club were not many years since preserved in the house, the first floor of which was then occupied by Mr. Webster, the medallist. ...
— Books and Authors - Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches • Anonymous
... and twenty, having finished my curriculum with high honours—I was gold medallist of my year in both medicine and surgery—I became house-surgeon to one of the London hospitals. After my term of office was over I remained at the hospital for another year, for I wished to make a practical ...
— Doctor Therne • H. Rider Haggard
... of the lamented Baronet, has been published from the establishment of Mr. Parker, (medallist, and the originator of some ingenious improvements in the construction of lamps), in Argyle-place. The obverse is from Chantrey's celebrated Bust of Sir Walter, and the reverse a graceful female figure, with the inscription, "to great men;"—designed by R. Stothard, Esq., ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 571 - Volume 20, No. 571--Supplementary Number • Various
... in, and saddened me by talking of poor Don. The General is a medallist, and entertains an opinion that the bonnet-piece of James V. is the work of some Scottish artist who died young, and never did anything else. It is far superior to anything which the Mint produced since the Roman denarii. He also told me that the name ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott


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