Definitionn. love of or taste for fine objects of art
Last update: October 13, 2015
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The magnet at sea; 2 and before the middle of the r3th century Gauthier d'Espinois alludes to its polarity, as if generally known, in the lines: "Tous autresi comme l'aimant decoit [detourne] L'aiguillette par force de vertu, A ma dame tor le mont [monde] retenue Qui sa beaute connoit et apercoit." [Please select]
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_O la vertu va-t-elle se nicher. [Please select]
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There should be a clock upon the mantelpiece, and a few other articles of vertu, such as a vase or so, a bronze statuette, etc. [Please select]
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Happily, in their meteoric transit across Europe, they had invested in many articles of vertu and convertible souvenirs of the places they had visited. [Please select]
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The purple crest stood out conspicuous on the white envelope--a fox’s head with the motto: Sans vertu, underneath. [Please select]
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For as Galiani said, who was obliged to know it: VERTU EST ENTHOUSIASME. [Please select]
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In the middle room, full of all kinds of curious objects of "vertu", stood a handsome peasant girl, with her eyes fixed as though she were in a trance. [Please select]
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The old New England pie-plate was a dearer article of vertu to him than the most fragile vase, unless the latter was a rare specimen of a forgotten art. [Please select]
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