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VERTU
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vertu mean?
• VERTU (noun)
The noun VERTU has 2 senses:
1. love of or taste for fine objects of art
2. artistic quality
Familiarity information: VERTU used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Love of or taste for fine objects of art
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
connoisseurship; vertu; virtu
Hypernyms ("vertu" is a kind of...):
appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Artistic quality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
vertu; virtu
Hypernyms ("vertu" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
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