Sentence example with the word 'vertu'

vertu

Definition n. love of or taste for fine objects of art

Last update: October 13, 2015


0

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]

0

_O la vertu va-t-elle se nicher.   [Please select]

0

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]

0

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]

0

The purple crest stood out conspicuous on the white envelope--a fox’s head with the motto: Sans vertu, underneath.   [Please select]

0

For as Galiani said, who was obliged to know it: VERTU EST ENTHOUSIASME.   [Please select]

0

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]

0

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]

Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!

Submit
verts - vertu - vertus