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phillumenist (fi-LOO-muh-nist) - n., someone who collects matchbooks or matchbox labels.


Yup, there's a word for it. Coined in the early 1940s from Greek phil-, love of + Latin lumen, light + Grecolatin -ist, suffix indicating person who practices .

---L.

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