tastemaker

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

taste +‎ maker

Noun[edit]

tastemaker (plural tastemakers)

  1. A trendsetter with respect to taste.
    The tastemakers have just discovered his work.
    • 1987 August 30, Grace Glueck, “Tastemakers”, in New York Times Magazine[1]:
      Where previous great tastemakers such as the Steins, the artist Marcel Duchamp and the dealer Alfred Stieglitz were dedicated amateurs, few in number, today there are swarms of them whose interests are professional or commercial.