aficionado

Example Sentences

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Basil had tremendous expertise in housing finance, but less in banking; Karen was a banking aficionado with limited knowledge of housing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

He could move with the grace of the tango aficionado he became or with the slow, pained gait of the cancer-ridden editor he played in “The Paper.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

If he’s an aficionado of fiction, there’s quite a few in the latest Booker Prize shortlist.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 17, 2026

Jake and his friends stayed at the Hotel Montoya, a fictional stand-in for the long-gone Hotel Quintana, where Juanito Quintana, Hemingway’s friend and fellow bullfight aficionado, once welcomed the lost generation.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

An aficionado is one who is passionate about the bull-fights.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway