Connaisseur vs Connoisseurs - What's the difference?
connaisseur | connoisseurs |
A specialist of a given field, especially in one of the fine arts or in a matter of taste: a connoisseur.
* 1847 , L. Piale (publisher), Guide to Naples and Sicily, Part I: Naples , page 42
* 1890 , James Knowles, ed, The Nineteenth Century: a monthly review (July–December 1890), page 579
* 1994 , Yirmiyahu Yovel, Gideon Segal, ed, Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind: Papers Presented at the Second Jerusalem Conference , page xii
* 2004 , Arthur Hartkamp and Carla Joustra, Kluwer Law International, Towards a European Civil Code: Third Fully Revised and Expanded Edition , a footnote on page 159
As nouns the difference between connaisseur and connoisseurs
is that connaisseur is a specialist of a given field, especially in one of the fine arts or in a matter of taste: a connoisseur while connoisseurs is .connaisseur
English
Noun
(en noun)- The gallery of Prince Valsavoja contains about 100 pictures several of which deserve the attention of the artist and connaisseur .
- They pass their Sundays agreeably, in complete repose: seated outside their doors, dressed in the best clothes, and displaying, with serene satisfaction, the many rings, pendants, and huge earrings of rare beauty, inherited for many past generations, and wich possess an individual character that the connaisseur at once recognises.
- The support of Mr. Albert Igoin, a Spinoza reader and connaisseur of long date, is particularly appreciated.
- But it needed a connaisseur'' of Roman law, namely Wolfgang Ernst, Bonn/Cambridge, to remind me that ''justum facere is the common root of Recht-Fertigung and justification.