connaisseuse

Example Sentences

• "‘It is true, your eminence; for I not only saw it, but ate of it myself.’ ‘At whose table?’ ‘At the Comtesse de la Ferté’s. When cut into slices, it filled the air with a delicious fragrance, and was veined and clouded like the richest marble!’ ‘Madame de la Ferté is a connaisseuse,’ observed Mazarin."
• "“You do look just like an angel, Miss Lucy,” Abby Dewitt asseverated, with the air of a connaisseuse in the article ."
• "Save these and one fair-sized palm in the centre, all the other plants are ferns in infinite variety, Mrs. St. John being a connaisseuse in that branch of horticulture."
• "“You are right, Bocco,” answered Frampa, with the air of a connaisseuse who does not praise lightly."
• "It was a declaration of much in little, and Marion, a connaisseuse of such speeches, absolved and accepted him with a kiss."
• "She had Leonardo for her visitor, and Titian for her portrait painter, and, to her honor as a connaisseuse, she recognized the talent of a Correggio when a Bembo, with all his assumption of art knowledge, passed him by unheeding."