aficionadoin a sentence
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He is an aficionado of fine cigars.
aficionado = someone who is enthusiastic and knowledgeable about a particular subject
- A chapandaz, a highly skilled horseman usually patronized by rich aficionados, has to snatch a goat or cattle carcass from the midst of a melee, carry that carcass with him around the stadium at full gallop, and drop it in a scoring circle while a team of other chapandaz chases him and does everything in its power—kick, claw, whip, punch—to snatch the carcass from him.† (source)
- Despite the orgiastic rituals once held at the Arc du Carrousel, art aficionados revered this place for another reason entirely.† (source)
- People always assume that because I am into classical music, I'm a jazz aficionado.† (source)
- Were his mother and father musicians or aficionados who filled the house with the sounds of Beethoven and Ernest Bloch, B —L— —C-H?† (source)
- You might like to read Mrs. Moodie's poem 'The Maniac,' if you are an aficionado of Sir Walter Scott.† (source)
- If you go through that history and keep count, the number of worlds that Lois has belonged to comes to eight: the actors, the writers, the doctors, the lawyers, the park-lovers, the politicians, the railroad buffs, and the flea market aficionados.† (source)
- The aficionados would be whispering among themselves now: "See how he stands.† (source)
- Meanwhile, cocaine dealers and aficionados across the country, and perhaps also in the Caribbean and South America, were working on a safer version of distilled cocaine.† (source)
- The beach culture had developed long before the Beach Boys released their first Top 40 hit, "Surfin' Safari," in 1962, and Jan and Dean their "Surf City" in 1963, with their utterly hedonistic message: Yeah, and there's two swingin' honeys for every guy And all you gotta do is just wink your eye These and other songs the Beach Boys Web site now calls "eternal anthems of American youth," and the millions of records they sold helped spread what had been to aficionados not just a sport but a whole way of life, lived on the beach, salt-caked and suntanned, with their own insider vocabulary.† (source)
- It is worth recording that the aficionados were so shaken that only one in ten asked for their money back, and also that the London Daily Mirror made matters much worse by suggesting that the Spaniards adopt cricket as a new national sport.† (source)
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- a classical music aficionado
- An aficionado is one who is passionate about the bull-fights. (source)
- The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados?† (source)
- She now recalled that her grandfather—a wordplay aficionado and art lover—had entertained himself as a young man by creating anagrams of famous works of art.† (source)
- Langdon had never seen any evidence of the pendant, nor could he imagine how it could possibly reveal the Holy Grail, and yet Grail aficionados still discussed it ad nauseum on Internet bulletin boards and worldwide-web chat rooms.† (source)
- Montoya said something about what great aficionados we were, and that we wanted to wish him luck.† (source)
- Those who were aficionados could always get rooms even when the hotel was full.† (source)
- But this was a banquet given him by a club of aficionados banded together into the Club Finito and it was necessary for him to give an appearance of gaiety and friendliness and merriment.† (source)
- But he's not aficionado like you are.† (source)
- Your friend, is he aficionado, too?† (source)
- But he's not aficionado like you.† (source)
- You're not an aficionado† (source)
- He's a real aficionado.† (source)
- These men were aficionados.† (source)
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