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Cognoscente
Definition:
(n.) A connoisseur.
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Cognoscenti
Definition:
(pl. ) of Cognoscente
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(1) The prism design for the group's blockbuster Dark Side of the Moon (1973) genuinely merits that much over-used term "iconic", and the image of a blazing businessman on a studio back lot on Wish You Were Here (1975) provoked endless late-night discussion among Floyd cognoscenti.
(2) It's not a rowdy place – think the cocktail cognoscenti trading tales over Rolling Stones classics – so come to expand your palate (but squeeze your wallet!).
(3) Photograph: Richard Saker Among the design cognoscenti of the period, Braun products were the creme de la creme, the must-have objects.
(4) Speaking in the House of Commons, Sir Peter Tapsell said it was “absolutely well known by the cognoscenti that it was completed many months ago”.
(5) These qualities doubtlessly appeal to certain cognoscenti, but it is not clear why they would raise Thy-1 to the status of a favourite molecule.
(6) All were alien to a coastal cognoscenti which decided long ago that this election was a foregone conclusion.
(7) In other eras, a dry and technical debate might have preoccupied a few constitutional cognoscenti.
(8) The political cognoscenti remained convinced, though, that the cap's only appeal was to those who hadn't thought the energy market through.
(9) One of the biggest comics in the country, he’s gone from being a pasty-faced prodigy who apparently arrived fully formed at the age of 22 to a star (admittedly still pasty-faced) who can both sell out arenas and earn kudos from comedy cognoscenti.
(10) From officials to analysts, cognoscenti in Bulgaria say Britain's fears of a tidal wave of migrants appearing when restrictions are lifted are unfounded.
(11) For cognoscenti of the debt drama that has rocked the eurozone since exploding beneath the Acropolis in late 2009, the visit is crucial for the German leader as she gears up for general elections in September 2013.
(12) February 26, 2013 And Kit Juckes of Société Générale was pithy as ever: The cognoscenti will be focusing on the fact that the Italian election was a clear anti-austerity protest by the people of the eurozone’s third-largest economy.
(13) Even then, her influence was limited to cognoscenti – intellectual and metropolitan.
(14) 10 Xenophobia (One Nite Alone…Live!, 2002) Prince’s straight jazz records pleased few, being too smooth and poppy for the jazz cognoscenti and too experimental for the masses.
(15) To the Westminster cognoscenti, the pictures confirmed that Duncan Smith is not a natural soulmate of Osborne, who neglected to mention the national living wage in the traditional pre-budget cabinet meeting to ensure maximum impact for his headline announcement.
(16) But then came an astonishingly rapid shift, from ephemeral pieces well thought of by the cognoscenti to the popular hit of the Blur Building, to projects in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars, such as the High Line and the Lincoln Centre.
(17) He and his onetime agent, Steve Lazarides, borrowed from the word-of-mouth warehouse party scene of the 1980s to generate a new in-crowd, a hip cognoscenti who got first dibs on buying made-to-sell Banksy originals.
(18) With that, she wore ankle-length trousers by Joseph, a wardrobe staple among fashion cognoscenti, with shoes by the very British and very Middleton-endorsed LK Bennett.
(19) Cognoscenti of new housing will also know of fine, small-scale projects by the developers Crispin Kelly of Baylight and Roger Zogolovitch of Solidspace .