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
Fyve yeares he may be kept in his vertue; by the Roses he hath vertue of comfortinge and by the hony he hath vertu of clensinge.
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
"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 Marion Harland
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
Verily kings have a slender chance, between the worms and the lovers of vertu.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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