The Devil's Dictionary: Connoisseur

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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CONNOISSEUR

-n.

A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was pouted on his lips to revive him. "Pauillac, 1873," he murmured and died.

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