Deltiologist (noun)
del-tee-ol-oj-ist
Someone who collects postcards.
Thanks to Simon Lamont for using this word on our Facebook page yesterday. I quite like the way it rolls off the tongue.
Example sentences
“She was a deltiologist with special interest in wartime postcards.”
“He had the biggest collection of postcards in the whole deltiologist’s club.”
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