connoisseur
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She said: "Record shops of the world will know first-hand that above all, Robert Plant is a connoisseur of his craft whose appetite for musical discoveries has not waned with the passage of time."
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
As far as horror films go, writer-director Ian Tuason’s debut feature “Undertone” has just about everything a genre connoisseur could ever want, all rolled into one.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
Phillips said a 1518 was the sort of watch that once acquired, "a connoisseur can feel to have reached the utmost peak of collecting".
From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025
I am a connoisseur; you are a collector; he is a hoarder; she doesn’t collect so much.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
They were in one of those long breaks in the sermon that the priest, a connoisseur of unbearable silences, used with frequency and to great effect.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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