Victoriana
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of Victoriana
First recorded in 1945–50; Victori(an) + -ana
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Waddington knew her Victoriana; she spent years working in a costume house, specializing in archival ladies fashion.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
He also struck up an unlikely, but long lasting friendship with the Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman, with whom he shared a passion for both Victoriana and for Cornwall.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2023
For 23-year-old Victoriana Loaiza, who was expelled from the United States to Mexico after trekking for more than a month through South and Central America to get to the border, Diaz was a lifeline.
From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2022
She had filled her house with Victoriana and declaimed at length about the straight talk and pure motives of her native Midwest.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2020
About thirty miles from Hippo, at a farm called Victoriana, there was a memorial to the two martyrs Protavius and Gervasius.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
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