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noun
A specialist of a given field, especially in one of the fine arts or in a matter of taste: a connoisseur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Either a borrowing of the French connaisseur (literally “knower, one who knows”) or an updating of the earlier borrowing, connoisseur, to bring it into line with modern French orthography.
