Definitions for virtu

virtu vir·tu

Spelling: [ver-too, vur-too]
IPA: /vərˈtu, ˈvɜr tu/

Virtu is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in virtu (irtuv).

Definitions for virtu

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.

Origin of virtu

1715-25; Italian virtù, vertù virtue

Examples for virtu

That is a country replete with articles of virtu, the only thing is to find them.

Nay, more, I hold thee in higher veneration than ever did antiquarian worship the relics of virtu.

Many are chosen, as you see, with little deference to the opinions of virtu.

All that fastidious refinement and taste could assemble, in objects of art and virtu, graced the salons.

By John Jones, Esq., pictures and virtu amounting to 240,000.

It may be the foundation of a set of bronzes, if stout Lord Walter should turn to virtu.

Rossetti, of course, wheeled about the marriage couch, but his was itself an interesting object of virtu.

On every side was to be seen rich hangings and articles of virtu.

Curio, kū′ri-o, n. any article of virtu or bric--brac, or anything considered rare and curious.

For virtu, I have a little to entertain you—it is my sole pleasure.

Word Value for virtu
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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