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Meanings of cognoscenti in English

Connoisseur.

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Examples for "connoisseur"
Examples for "connoisseur"
1
The flamboyant music connoisseur steered his work through his love of music.
The Irish Times
2
I'm no wine connoisseur, but they usually know what they're talking about.'
The ice princess
3
He sniffed at the steaming pot with the air of a connoisseur.
Max
4
I will not put on airs: I am no one's wine connoisseur.
Ebony
5
It will bring that under the hammer, any day, replied the connoisseur.
Home Lights and Shadows
Usage of cognoscenti in English
1
Such at least I have gathered to be the opinion of cognoscenti.
Middlemarch
2
The cognoscenti of Irish traditional music need no directions to Gort na mBo.
The Irish Times
3
There were other matters for the arts cognoscenti to get their teeth into.
The Irish Times
4
Others consider themselves arbiters of taste -the cognoscenti of real and rare music.
BBC
5
The cognoscenti were delighted when his ministerial appointment was announced.
The Irish Times
6
The opposite fear is true too: that the cognoscenti will be alienated by watered-down fusions.
The Guardian
7
With the help of a group of coastal cognoscenti, here are 55 alternatives(...)
The Irish Times
8
For years Mantel was the secret of the cognoscenti.
The Guardian
9
The pallid prophet has attracted the beginnings of a cult following among the Newton cognoscenti.
Wired
10
The surprisingly easy-to-offend cognoscenti of Hill 16 may just have to suck it up here.
The Irish Times
11
I must delicately hint to him that I am in the inner circle of the cognoscenti.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
12
Outside that country, it's just for the cognoscenti.
The Irish Times
13
But it's Gobright's free solos that pushed his name into the cognoscenti's campfire conversations around the country.
Rock and Ice Magazine
14
Hence that "annihilation" of Galway earlier this summer will be forgotten on Sunday, the cognoscenti say.
The Irish Times
15
Most cognoscenti prefer their kneepads with a patch of shoe rubber sewn to the front for greater adhesion.
Climbing Magazine
16
There will still be less of the cognoscenti, and these will be hidden even from their own world.
Second Foundation
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