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Definition
an expert who appreciates the fine points of one of the arts — especially fine cuisine- a wine connoisseur
- a connoisseur of classic music
- It is evident, in spite of his frequent attention to her while she draws, that in fact he knows nothing of the matter. He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- all the connoisseurs who heard her said: "It is not trained, but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained."Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the tasteRobert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
- He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado
- It's like if you were a Matisse connoisseur, and you look at a lot of pictures, and then you'd go, ahh, there is the Matisse.Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
- "Excuse the admiration of a connoisseur," said he as he waved his hand towards the line of portraits which covered the opposite wall.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- He had bought that vase for the satisfaction of thinking of all the connoisseurs who could not afford it.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- It was not simply the connoisseur, the snob, that Kleppmann detested.John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
- A certain American gentleman, Mr J. Baker Wood, was a connoisseur and collector of miniatures.Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
- Alessandro thought he might be the son of a Methuselan connoisseur who lived in a villa threatened by floods.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- "And so, connoisseurs in wine as we are, we have sent you some Anjou wine?" said Porthos.Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- Hans Castorp stepped out from under the tree to let a few fall on his sleeve and to examine them with the connoisseur's expert eye.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- Buelah was a soul-food connoisseur.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- He had an emergency, he told Dede, but being a connoisseur of fear, she guessed he was afraid.Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
- Denied admission to Harvard and Yale and the "right" beginning, he had become a self-conscious connoisseur of fine things.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- "You are a connoisseur in flowers, signor," said Beatrice, with a smile, alluding to the bouquet which he had flung her from the window.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's Daughter
- This like a wine connoisseur dropping a name.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- 'Thirty dollars each?' remarked Aarfy slowly, poking and patting each of the three strapping girls skeptically with the air of a grudging connoisseur.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
connoisseurship = knowledge about and appreciation of