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What is vertu?

What is vertu? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic) Especially in the writings of Machiavelli (1469–1527): excellence; moral virtue; honor; power.
  2. (art) Knowledge of the fine arts.
  3. (art) Objets d'art collectively.
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Examples
The vertu and use of coffee with regard to the plague and other infectious distempers.
The paintings hung in a small cabinet in which were also located a number of antiquities and objets de vertu, in a heterogeneous arrangement like that of a wonder collection.
He would make another trip for the lacquer god, and for such other articles of value or vertu which the junk might contain.
If there is no room on the lorries for any article of vertu, it goes on the tank.
Come, now, let us go and explore Monsieur de Beauchamp's articles of vertu.
Queen Charlotte was hardly mentioned, even though she was an avid collector of gems, natural history specimens and objets de vertu.

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