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
"I saw few things when I was abroad, before my marriage, that interested me more than the illuminated missals and breviaries preserved in convents, museums, and private collections of vertu," she said to Mr. Wyllys.
From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion
"The old boy is gourmand for articles of vertu."
From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.
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.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John
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
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