- a variation of virtu.
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
It took his fancy immensely, and he put it on his mantel-piece as an article of vertu; so it was rather a failure after all.
From Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott
It is evident that when the physician stated that opium had "une vertu soporifique," he did not account for, but merely asserted over again, the fact that it endormit.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by John Stuart Mill
Innumerable small tables and a double mantel-shelf were crowded with articles of vertu in the shape of hand-painted vases, and ginger-jars, and marble hands.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Around him were costly decorations—objects of vertu and luxe—duplicated in plate-glass mirrors over the mantel, and along the sides of the room, extending from floor to ceiling.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
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