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vir⋅tu

  [ver-too, vur-too]
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–noun
1. excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.
2. (used with a plural verb) such objects or articles collectively.
3. a taste for or knowledge of such objects.
Also, vertu.

Origin:
1715–25; < It virtù, vertù virtue
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vir·tu   (vər-tōō', vĭr-)   
n.  

  1. A knowledge or love of or taste for fine objects of art.

  2. Objects of art, especially fine antique objets d'art, considered as a group.


[Italian virtù, virtue, virtu, from Latin virtūs, excellence, virtue; see virtue.]
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Word Origin & History

virtu 
"excellence in an object of art, passion for works of art," 1722, from It. virtu "excellence," from L. virtutem (nom. virtus) "virtue" (see virtue). The same word as virtue, borrowed during a period when everything Italian was in vogue. Sometimes spelled vertu, after Fr., but this is unjustified, as this sense of the word is not in Fr.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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