vertu
/vərˈtu/
noun
- A love of or taste for fine objects of art, especially antiques or curiosities.
- He collected rare coins not for investment but out of pure vertu.
- The museum's director had a deep vertu for Renaissance furniture.
- Her apartment was filled with antiques, showing her keen vertu.
- The quality of being excellent or admirable in a particular area; virtue or merit (archaic or formal).
- She possessed a natural vertu for leadership.
- His vertu as a scholar was recognized by all.
- The knight was praised for his vertu in battle.
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