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Connoisseurship

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con·nois·seur  (kn-sûr, -sr)
n.
1. A person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts.
2. A person of informed and discriminating taste: a connoisseur of fine wines.
[Obsolete French, from Old French connoisseor, from connoistre, to know, from Latin cognscere, to learn, know; see cognition.]
connois·seurship n.
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Noun1.Connoisseurshipconnoisseurship - love of or taste for fine objects of art
vertu, virtu
appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste - delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"


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These are the studies of their graver hours, while for their amusements they have the vast circle of connoisseurship, painting, music, statuary, and natural philosophy, or rather
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
The Colonel, though disclaiming all pretensions to connoisseurship, warmly admired the screens, as he would have done any thing painted by Miss Dashwood; and on the curiosity of the others being of course excited, they were handed round for general inspection.
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