Brewer's: Dilettante

(Italian). 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.” —Athenæum.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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