An amateur of the fine arts, in opposition to a professor. Plural, dilettanti.
“These gentlemen are to be judged, not as dilettanti, but as professors.”—Athenœum.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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