Sample sentences for CONNOISSEUR

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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 taste
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado

connoisseurship = knowledge about and appreciation of

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
'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
It seemed Professor Langdon, the art connoisseur, was having an ethical dilemma about using the Internet when an original was so nearby.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol

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