aficionado
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Drummer Charlie Watts, the group’s newest member, a jazz aficionado and an accomplished percussionist, propelled the music forward with a rock-solid beat.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
If he’s an aficionado of fiction, there’s quite a few in the latest Booker Prize shortlist.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 17, 2026
Yang, a car aficionado, wanted to give her 2-year-old son a close-up look at the factory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026
Jake and his friends stayed at the Hotel Montoya, a fictional stand-in for the long-gone Hotel Quintana, where Juanito Quintana, Hemingway’s friend and fellow bullfight aficionado, once welcomed the lost generation.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
An aficionado is one who is passionate about the bull-fights.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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