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vertu

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ver·tu  (vr-t)
n.
Variant of virtu.
vertu [vɜːˈtuː]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a variant spelling of virtu
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Noun1.vertu - love of or taste for fine objects of artvertu - love of or taste for fine objects of art
connoisseurship, virtu
appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness, taste - delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
2.vertu - artistic qualityvertu - artistic quality                    
virtu
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
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Now, when with royal Tranquo I visited this wondrous whale, and saw the skull an altar, and the artificial smoke ascending from where the real jet had issued, I marvelled that the king should regard a chapel as an object of vertu.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Jones, who was never backward on any occasion to help the distressed, immediately ran down-stairs; when stepping into the dining-room, whence all the noise issued, he beheld the young gentleman of wisdom and vertu just before mentioned, pinned close to the wall by his footman, and a young woman standing by, wringing her hands, and crying out, "He will be murdered
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
The more drawers and closets there were, the more hiding-holes could Dinah make for the accommodation of old rags, hair-combs, old shoes, ribbons, cast-off artificial flowers, and other articles of vertu, wherein her soul delighted.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
 
 
 
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