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
L'�pitaphe de Scipion le Barbu semble le r�sum� d'une oraison fun�bre; elle s'adresse aux spectateurs: 'Corn�lius Scipion Barbatus, n� d'un p�re vaillant, homme courageux et prudent, dont la beaut� �galait la vertu.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
He renders “La memoire du prodigue est nulle” by “Of the prodigall ther is no memory,” and “La seulle vertu est la vraye noblesse” by “The only vertue, is the true nobilitie.”
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew
He is called the “Father of vertu in England,” and was admired by a contemporary as the person to whom “this angle of the world oweth the first sight of Greek and Roman statues.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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.
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