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
The vertu and use of coffee with regard to the plague and other infectious distempers.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Considered merely as an article of vertu it was about on a par with the pincushions, but Celia accepted it in the spirit with which it had been offered.
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
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
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
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