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connoisseurship

[ kon-uh-sur-ship, -soor- ]

noun

  1. the fact or state of being a connoisseur, a person who is especially competent to make discerning judgments in the fine arts or, often, in some other field; critical expertise, or the qualities of a connoisseur generally:

    Private galleries were a way for collectors to show off their education, taste, and connoisseurship.

    Fine tea defines a sense of culture, marks a ritual, and offers a sense of connoisseurship.



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He was known in his family and to friends as a connoisseur of modern art and haute cuisine.

If familiarity breeds contempt, then overindulgence breeds snobbish connoisseurship.

That kind of slightly over-anxious, wrapping up of objects in connoisseurship brings me out in hives.

Connoisseurship has spread from wine and olive oil to chocolate, cheeses, pickles, hams, cupcakes.

In the book you suggest that connoisseurship has become more egalitarian, how come?

Winckelmann gloated over their beauty, for he united the artist's appreciation to the connoisseurship of the archologist.

Connoisseurship is a science and may hold within itself no element of aesthetic enjoyment.

By the end of the fifteenth century art is becoming a question of rules; appreciation a matter of connoisseurship.

He liked good food, and was proud of his connoisseurship in matters of cookery, and wines.

Every detail spoke of the connoisseurship, the refined and personal taste characteristic of Oxford in the eighties.

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