vertu
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
The Russian fashion, then uncommon, now more prevalent, was adopted—fruits and flowers in old Sevre dishes of priceless vertu, and in sparkling glass, of Bohemian fabric.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
The Russian fashion, then uncommon, now more prevalent, was adopted—fruits and flowers in old Sèvres dishes of priceless vertu, and in sparkling glass of Bohemian fabric.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
And alle be it so that it be drye, natheloss yet be herethe great vertu, &c.”
From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
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
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