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
Verily kings have a slender chance, between the worms and the lovers of vertu.
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He liked the society of politicians and literary men, and he was also a collector of pictures and articles of vertu.
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The best and really most beautiful results are seen in the delicate vertu of the eighteenth century.
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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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