connoisseur

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I am making some progress as a connoisseur, and have got so far as to be able to distinguish the broader differences of style, -- as, for example, between Rubens and Rembrandt.

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  1. noun A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts.
  2. noun A person of informed and discriminating taste: a connoisseur of fine wines.

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  • Indeed, my pride, my reputation as a connoisseur is a thing near to my heart, and it would be an unspeakable humiliation to me to have it known that I had been imposed on by such a forgery. —  AHMM,September2007
  • Make her self-help guru a fast-talking pop-culture connoisseur, and it's my favorite show. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Fortunato being a true wine connoisseur might be able to help him. —  A Work in Progress
  • The conventional list of questions posed by an art historian or connoisseur are the standard what, where, when, why, and how. —  American Artist
  • He is a writer whose colloquial approach masks both a rather uncolloquial feeling for the tautest way of getting his point across and a word connoisseur's desire to show off his collection. —  The New York Review of Books
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  1. Obsolete French, from Old French connoisseor, from connoistre, to know, from Latin cognōscere, to learn, know; see cognition.

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  1. from French connoisseur, formerly cognoisseur, now connaisseur, from Old French conoisseor, connisseour, conissour, etc. (= Provencal conoissere, conoissedor = Spanish conocedor = Portuguese conhecedor = Italian conoscitore), from Old French conoistre, connoistre (connoiss-), French connaître (connaiss-)= Provencal conoscer, conoisser = Spanish conoscer (obsolete), conocer = Portuguese conhecer = Italian conoscere, know, from Latin cognoscere, know: see cognition, cognizance, cognize, cognosce.
 

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/kɑnɪˈsjurɑrˈsər/
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