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Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or the period from 1837 to 1901.
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, title= # Of or displaying the (supposed) standards or ideals of morality of that period.
# Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period.
# Based on the culture of that period.
Of or relating to the state of Victoria in Australia.
A person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period.
* 2008 May 29 – June 4, Aimee Levitt, "Mind Your Manners", , page 20,
A person from the state of Victoria in Australia.
A person from Victoria, British Columbia.
victorian
English
Adjective
(en adjective) (Victorian era)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Noun
(en noun)- It was not until the late 1800s when older members of New York society... devised a daunting system of social rules — not to mention silverware — meant to repel anyone of humble origins... . It was the Victorians who gave us such useful implements as the strawberry knife.