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vertu

[ ver-too, vur-too ]

noun

  1. a variant of virtu.


vertu

/ vɜːˈtuː /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of virtu
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Its collection runs to paintings, furniture, statuary, manuscripts, sundry objets de vertu and an authoritative collection of photography.

Verily kings have a slender chance, between the worms and the lovers of vertu.

He liked the society of politicians and literary men, and he was also a collector of pictures and articles of vertu.

The best and really most beautiful results are seen in the delicate vertu of the eighteenth century.

The professor of vertu was expatiating one day, to a group of bystanders, on the merits of some little gem of a drawing he had just purchased.

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