vertu
Americannoun
noun
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Its collection runs to paintings, furniture, statuary, manuscripts, sundry objets de vertu and an authoritative collection of photography.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
The best and really most beautiful results are seen in the delicate vertu of the eighteenth century.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by Cox, George J.
Aultre chevalier y a qui est hardy par ignorance: car il est si simple quil ne scet que est vertu de force: mais faite ainsi comme il voit faire au plus avance.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
I am sorry to say that every object of vertu that I ever possessed upon which we might at a pinch have raised a seven-shilling piece has already been called upon to perform that office.
From The Wayfarers by Snaith, J. C.
Fyve yeares he may be kept in his vertue; by the Roses he hath vertue of comfortinge and by the hony he hath vertu of clensinge.
From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
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