connoisseur

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An expert whose judgement is respected, especially in art, food, or other matters of taste.

   As a wine connoisseur, she could name the region from a single sip.

Around 1705–1715, from French connoisseur, from the verb connoître (obsolete pre-1835 spelling of connaître (“to know”)).

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