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
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 J. C. Snaith
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
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 Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
He found, especially, books, a few paintings, engravings, and various small objects of vertu; moreover, the residence was spacious, well-ventilated, and not over-crowded with unnecessary articles.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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