vertu

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

vertu
    n 1: love of or taste for fine objects of art [syn: {virtu},
         {vertu}, {connoisseurship}]
    2: artistic quality [syn: {virtu}, {vertu}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Vertu \Ver"tu\, n.
   1. Virtue; power. See {Virtue}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   2. See {Virtu}.
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