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
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 Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
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
Whenever the Wolnitzkys were in any financial straits the Bernini was packed off to some dealer in objects of vertu, from which excursions it invariably returned unsold.
From Our Own Set A Novel by Schubin, Ossip
Here men may se the vertu of dyverse herbes, and what thei be, and whiche ben hoote and which ben colde.
From The Old English Herbals by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
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