"conoscente" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1870, Charles Lock Eastlake, Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts, London: John Murray, […], page 141",
          "text": "The conoscenti of Pieve are certain that Titian must have come by Belluno to Pieve in his almost annual visit to his birth-place; but certainly the landscapes in Le Fèvre’s collection do not correspond with any scene in that road, nor with the scenery for many miles round Pieve.",
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          "ref": "1884, Geo[rge] G[ilbert] T[reherne] Treherne, J[ohn] H[aviland] D[ashwood] Goldie, Record of the University Boat Race, 1829–1883, London: Bickers & Son, […]; Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes; Oxford: James Thornton, page 44",
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        "acquaintance"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "acquaintance",
          "acquaintance"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "by-personal-gender",
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ko.noʃˈʃɛn.te/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnte"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "misspelling"
      ],
      "word": "conosciente"
    }
  ],
  "word": "conoscente"
}