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
Sownynge53 in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
Wherfore I maye iustelye conclude, that true felicity doth consist in wisdome and vertu.
From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record
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
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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