victorian
维多利亚时代,胜利者,维多利亚式,维多利亚
Definitions
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- : of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- : having the characteristics usually attributed to the Victorians, especially prudishness and observance of the conventionalities.
- : Architecture. noting or pertaining to the architecture, furnishings, and decoration of English-speaking countries between c1840 and c1900, characterized by rapid changes of style as a consequence of aesthetic and philosophical controversy, technological innovations, and changes of fashion, by the frequent presence of ostentatious ornament, and by an overall trend from classicism at the start to romanticism and eclecticism at the middle of the period and thence to classicism again, with attempts at stylistic innovation occurring from time to time.noting or pertaining to the massive, elaborate work characteristic especially of the period c1855–80, derived mainly from the Baroque and Gothic styles and characterized by the presence of heavy carved ornament, elaborate moldings, etc., by the use of strong and generally dark colors, by the frequent use of dark varnished woodwork, by the emphasis on geometrical form rather than on textural effects, and frequently by an effect of harshness.
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- : a person who lived during the Victorian period.
- : a house in or imitative of the Victorian style.
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Examples
Little wonder that George MacDonald Fraser, chronicler of Flashman, that greatest of all Victorian antiheroes, loved “Under the Red Robe.”
Plants invented “steamy but not touchy” long before the Victorian novel — much flowering, perfuming and maybe green yearning, all without direct contact of reproductive organs.
Much of the way we understand the Royal Family today, as a public-facing family and in its relationship with the media, was consolidated during the Victorian era, alongside the development of photographic practice and mass printed media.
Though restrictions are being eased gradually, the Victorian government would have to approve the tournament bringing international players to the country.
I noticed Victorian homes, Spanish mission–style churches, and the way land and water interlocked.
The Industrial Revolution and Victorian practically erased the holiday in England.
To him, Churchill “was radical precisely because he was conservative” and “essentially a buccaneering Victorian Whig.”
According to Wynd, “Freddie Mercury once said he wanted to lead a Victorian life surrounded by exquisite clutter.”
A Victorian-style couch now stands in the spot where Mr. Borden was killed while he napped.
Your Victorian lesbians were sexy, vocal, recognizable, and radical too, I say.
It was a room without beauty, merely walls, repapered once every twenty years, and furniture of the mid- era.