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Virtu

noun

Love of or taste for fine objects of art. Synonyms: connoisseurship, vertu.

Artistic quality. Synonym: vertu.

Objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques).

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"Virtu" Quotes from Famous Books

... SMITH I am unable to present the lover of VIRTU with any particulars more acceptable than the following. Pasquali (whose Latin preface is curious enough—abounding with as many interrogatories as Hamlet's soliloquies) has told us that "as the Consul himself was distinguished for his politeness, talents, and prudence, so ...

— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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Words linked to "Virtu" : appreciation, quality, discernment, perceptiveness, art object, taste, piece, objet d'art