Monday 18 November 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Dilettante

dil-et-tante



verb :: An admirer or lover of the fine arts.



"It was unparalleled, undreamed-of, that I, Humphrey Van Weyden, a scholar and a dilettante, if you please, in things artistic and literary, should be lying here on a Bering Sea seal- hunting schooner." --London, Jack

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