tyro

someone new to a field or activity

All great writers, athletes, and artists were tyros at one timeunknown, clumsy, and unskilled with much to learn.

Rochas, which I had read in tyro fashion in other and busier days,

Professionally, if not artistically speaking, Doré passed straight from child to man; in one sense of the word he had no boyhood, the term tyro remained inapplicable.

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