dilettante
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A few years ago the violinist Neufeld and the bass and tenor saxophone player Stetson performed a small gig at Dilettante, an art space in industrial downtown.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2015
If winter-triggered nightmare isn't enough of a draw, there's also dessert served with each show — from Sugar Rush this weekend, and Dilettante the next.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2011
Dilettante Smith, by then a corpulent old man, played at the game of dangling his inheritance before a group of younger followers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Accomplished Dilettante Lartigue was given his first camera in 1901 at age seven, and immediately began to illustrate his diary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dilettante, which had originally the sense of amateur, has to some extent come to denote one who is superficial, pretentious, and affected, whether in theory or practise.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
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