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victorian::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced |
victorian::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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victorian:: | Spocien Dictionary
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| Derivation | victoria |
Examples of victorian
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It was a similar situation in victorian Britain with Londons sewers and cholera.
From the independent.co.uk
Victorian pilings jut from the river, the railway they once supported long gone.
From the nytimes.com
Victorian publicans salting beer glasses to make the customers thirsty for more.
From the expressandstar.com
Victorian Games and Amusements, toys and games without computers or electricity.
From the kansas.com
The system from primary to higher education is so victorian it is unbelievable.
From the guardian.co.uk
Victorian visitors flocked to the site, hailing its intensely romantic landscape.
From the post-gazette.com
Victorian houses were usually built around the late 1800s into the early 1900s.
From the pe.com
Victorian Square was a valid preservation effort because it retained its context.
From the kentucky.com
Victorian Terraces are lovely and all that, but there's more than enough of them.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
- A person who lived during the reign of Victoria
- Priggish: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- Typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
- (victoria) queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
- (victoria) (Roman mythology) goddess of victory; counterpart of Greek Nike
- The Victorian is a 25-issue comic book series published by Penny-Farthing Press and starting in 1999. The brainchild of creator Trainor Houghton, the series included a number of notable script writers and illustrators, including Len Wein, Glen Orbik and Howard Chaykin.
- Victorian (1925-1934) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred in Kentucky. He was bred and raced by Harry P. Whitney and is best known as the winner of the 1928 American Classic, the Preakness Stakes in which he was ridden by future Hall of Fame jockey Sonny Workman.
- Victorianism is the name given to the attitudes, art, and culture of the latter two-thirds of the 19th century, especially with reference to English-speaking peoples and the British Empire. Victorianists are people who study Victorianism or the Victorian era.
