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Answer for the clue "Especially in the fine arts ", 11 letters:
cognoscenti

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plural of cognoscente (q.v.).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cognoscente \Cog`nos*cen"te\, n.; pl. Cognoscenti . [OIt. cognoscente, p. pr. of cognoscere, It. conoscere to know.] A connoisseur. --Mason.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Cognoscenti (Joshua Pryce, Al & "Baby Girl" Steadbaur), are fictional monster characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The characters first appeared in Secret Defenders #19.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of cognoscente English)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the cognoscenti know that the grip can be everything: in itself it can decide the entire bout. ▪ Food that is traditionally grown and free from the intrusion of technology will become increasingly desirable among the cognoscenti ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts [syn: connoisseur ]

Usage examples of cognoscenti.

Despite his plush accommodations, he had always dreamed of owning a riverside apartment on L'lle Saint-Louis, where he could rub shoulders with the true cognoscenti, rather than here, where he simply met the filthy rich.

The caption read, Art for Cognoscenti Club are honoured to present as 'Pic.

When everything went to hell and the CPU began spewing out random bits, the result, on a CLI machine, was lines and lines of perfectly formed but random characters on the screen--known to cognoscenti as "going Cyrillic.

This fellow was the second person who turned me on to Macintoshes, by the way, and through the mid-1980's we had shared the thrill of being high-tech cognoscenti, using superior Apple technology in a world of DOS-using knuckleheads.

All the self-styled Harvard cognoscenti assembled in Radcliffe's Agassiz Theater to sit in judgment on Maria Pastore's choreography and Daniel Rossi's score.

The biggest audience ever squeezed into the Albert Hall were bitterly disappointed, but they saw Boris's deathly pallor and his youth and some of the cognoscenti remembered his defection from Russia.