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Similar words: queen victoriavaledictorianvictoriousvictoriouslyvictorvictoryvictory gardenhistorianMeaning: [vɪk'tɔːrɪən]  n. a person who lived during the reign of Victoria. adj. 1. of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled 2. exaggeratedly proper 3. typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria. 
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121, The train passes near Gate Manor, a fine Victorian mock Jacobean hall.
122, A Victorian mahogany single bed with walnut ends sold for £420; an Edwardian inlaid mahogany wardrobe and dressing table, £360.
123, An armchair, desk, a couple of straight chairs and other bedroom furniture were all Victorian.
124, Dear Maggie, I feel I owe you an apology for abandoning your esteemed Victorian values.
125, You can not, in a post-industrial nation, make more than fitful sense of an early Victorian doctrine of class-war.
126, Moreover, Charles Darwin's revelations about out bestial beginnings had dealt a severe to Victorian man's self-image.
127, She would be around forty but had the appearance of a heroine in a Victorian novel - tall, willowy, ethereal.
128, At that time North Shields had a set of Victorian shopping streets.
129, Although the old Victorian building with its spine of hutted wards was a vaguely familiar place, it was by no means home.
130, The little tern's numbers have been threatened since Victorian times when it was hunted for its snow-white plumage.
131, Mr Copley had in youth been a curate at Larksoken when the Victorian church was still standing.
132, Behind the Victorian front door frame was an earlier one, with mouldings and sockets for a carved headpiece.
133, Margaret had told me the doctor now lived in a Victorian mansion in Ayr.
134, The 8.16 from Darlington and the returning 10.38 behaved as impeccably as the reception class at a Victorian Sunday school.
135, In this tranquil setting stands the distinctive form of Holme Castle, an impressive Victorian stone house built in 1820.
136, A disused Victorian toilet block, with many of the original fixtures and fittings still in tact.
137, Victorian women wore severely restricting corsets to achieve an hourglass shape.
138, The later Victorian undertakers were arguably the most backward-looking tradesmen of their day.
139, The displays are shown in Victorian cases housed in a long, narrow gallery running parallel to the windows on to Chambers Street.
140, The man who is now so Victorian in his manners and morals was a rampant socialite.
141, The society is worried about traditional Victorian front doors being replaced with unsuitable off-the-peg doors.
142, Eccleshall also finds backing here from one of the recent histories of the late Victorian and Edwardian Conservative Party.
143, Consequently a world-wide effort is now being made to obtain and breed Victorian Cichlids to ensure their survival.
144, On either side of the Victorian fireplace with its flower-filled hearth stood an easy chair.
145, Embossed Anaglypta and Lincrusta wall coverings in 100 historical patterns from Victorian to modern.
146, His Victorian tomb looks out through a vista of pine trees on to the shimmering plains below.
147, A great deal of money has been spent conserving a block of less-than-distinguished Victorian slums and warehouses.
148, He was writing in the Origin for readers most of whom were steeped in Victorian optimism,[Sentencedict.com ] religion and the romantic movement.
149, Even those involved in Victorian retail trade needed to be saved, perhaps as much as intellectuals and aristocrats.
150, She was a forceful personality who did not suffer fools gladly, but her sternness was accompanied by grace and Victorian courtesy.
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