vertu

noun

ver·tu ˌvər-

ˌver-

variant of virtu

: a love of or taste for curios or objets d'art

: productions of art especially of a curious or antique nature : objets d'art

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Crawford is an inveterate collector, a hunter-gatherer par excellence, and her home is a testament to decades spent amassing oddities and objets de vertu of every stripe. —