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Six example sentences with connoisseur, each labelled with its topic.
A connoisseur can name the region from one spoonful of olive oil, then argue about the harvest year.
Cooking
The gallery hired a connoisseur to look at the brushwork, and she declared the signature a nineteenth-century addition.
Art
Only a connoisseur hears the difference between the two pressings, but he will talk about it for an hour.
Music
A connoisseur of silent film can name the studio from the tint of the print and the shape of the intertitles.
Movies
The connoisseur ran his hand along the cornice and dated the house to within five years of its building.
Architecture
Only a connoisseur of Victorian prose would notice that the anonymous letter borrowed its rhythm from Dickens.
Literature
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