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单词 Victoriana
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Definition of Victoriana in English:

Victoriana

plural noun vɪkˌtɔːrɪˈɑːnəvɪkˌtɔriˈɑnə
  • 1Articles, especially collectors' items, from the Victorian period.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Naturally it has the heritage decor that comes with the genre: dark wood, theatrical red, brazenly swirly carpets, brass coal scuttles and Quality Street faux Victoriana prints.
    • The garden contained much of the Victoriana he had salvaged from in and around Keighley.
    • The Grill Room could be a set for Monarch of the Glen, or one of those retro Scottish Victoriana reproduction room displays you'd find in Big Box furniture warehouses.
    • Rather than play with other kids, the young Lloyd Jenkins would hang out with the neighbours - elderly communists with a boat shed full of Victoriana, rescued from a St Mary's Bay home demolished for the harbour bridge.
    • This sombre painting, hung at the gallery's current Ben Nicholson display, may at first appear out of place - a piece of Victoriana surrounded by some of the most spare geometric abstraction ever produced in Britain.
    • The room is tastefully decorated - though not to my taste - with layers of muted Victoriana.
    • Instead of twee Victoriana, we found ourselves staring at a glass monolith that looked like it would be more at home in Florida than Fife.
    • Now Sally doesn't hesitate to mix vintage Hawaiiana with Victoriana.
    • Not far from the base of the Christ Church tower - which is no longer a place of worship but an art gallery - stands a magnificent piece of early Victoriana which was once Hartlepool's great Wesleyan chapel.
    • Ozzy Osbourne lookalike Darren Marks from Leeds, was filmed with Victoriana, art nouveau and art deco expert Eric Knowles with his giant barge teapot.
    • The fuddy-duddiness of Victoriana seemed to me so unfashionable in the 1990s: people wanted to have things like stainless-steel kitchens; they didn't want all this velvet over the tables and embroidery everywhere.
    • Now, I'm not a fan of Victoriana - not one of those women who has lace doilies on my end table and sachets in my bathroom.
    • Visitors were able to browse a selection of Victoriana stalls from jewellery sellers and basket-weavers to rope makers, and there was plenty of street entertainment to be enjoyed, including jugglers, stilt-walkers and jazz musicians.
    • In the sitting room chintz, collections of sherry glasses and relentless Paisley-esque carpet all conspire to create an idiosyncratic replica of Victoriana.
    1. 1.1 Matters or attitudes relating to or characteristic of this period.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She has preserved all the Biba signatures: the dusky palette, strong art deco and Victoriana influences, and long, sinuous silhouettes characterised by narrow arms and well-defined shoulders.
      • Strangely, it is not in attempting to merge this intellectual Victoriana into believable characters that the play begins to display weaknesses.
      • A taste for Victoriana characterizes his work of the early 1940s, while later pieces exhibit a move towards greater abstraction.
      • His Collected Poems sold over a million copies and as broadcaster he became a national institution, championing Victoriana and the disappearing ‘Metro-land’ of his youth.
      • Yet another comedy television project had foundered and he had become obsessed with over-population and restoring Victoriana.

Rhymes

Africana, Afrikaner, Americana, ana, banana, Botswana, bwana, cabana, caragana, Christiana, Dana, darner, Edwardiana, garner, Georgiana, Ghana, Gloriana, Guiana, gymkhana, Haryana, iguana, Lana, lantana, liana, Lipizzaner, Ljubljana, Mahayana, mana, mañana, marijuana, nirvana, Oriana, pacarana, piranha, prana, Purana, Rosh Hashana, Santayana, Setswana, sultana, Tatiana, Tijuana, Tirana, tramontana, Tswana, varna, zenana
 
 

Definition of Victoriana in US English:

Victoriana

plural nounvɪkˌtɔriˈɑnəvikˌtôrēˈänə
  • 1Articles, especially collectors' items, from the Victorian period.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not far from the base of the Christ Church tower - which is no longer a place of worship but an art gallery - stands a magnificent piece of early Victoriana which was once Hartlepool's great Wesleyan chapel.
    • The garden contained much of the Victoriana he had salvaged from in and around Keighley.
    • This sombre painting, hung at the gallery's current Ben Nicholson display, may at first appear out of place - a piece of Victoriana surrounded by some of the most spare geometric abstraction ever produced in Britain.
    • The fuddy-duddiness of Victoriana seemed to me so unfashionable in the 1990s: people wanted to have things like stainless-steel kitchens; they didn't want all this velvet over the tables and embroidery everywhere.
    • Rather than play with other kids, the young Lloyd Jenkins would hang out with the neighbours - elderly communists with a boat shed full of Victoriana, rescued from a St Mary's Bay home demolished for the harbour bridge.
    • Ozzy Osbourne lookalike Darren Marks from Leeds, was filmed with Victoriana, art nouveau and art deco expert Eric Knowles with his giant barge teapot.
    • The Grill Room could be a set for Monarch of the Glen, or one of those retro Scottish Victoriana reproduction room displays you'd find in Big Box furniture warehouses.
    • The room is tastefully decorated - though not to my taste - with layers of muted Victoriana.
    • Now, I'm not a fan of Victoriana - not one of those women who has lace doilies on my end table and sachets in my bathroom.
    • Naturally it has the heritage decor that comes with the genre: dark wood, theatrical red, brazenly swirly carpets, brass coal scuttles and Quality Street faux Victoriana prints.
    • In the sitting room chintz, collections of sherry glasses and relentless Paisley-esque carpet all conspire to create an idiosyncratic replica of Victoriana.
    • Instead of twee Victoriana, we found ourselves staring at a glass monolith that looked like it would be more at home in Florida than Fife.
    • Now Sally doesn't hesitate to mix vintage Hawaiiana with Victoriana.
    • Visitors were able to browse a selection of Victoriana stalls from jewellery sellers and basket-weavers to rope makers, and there was plenty of street entertainment to be enjoyed, including jugglers, stilt-walkers and jazz musicians.
    1. 1.1 Matters or attitudes relating to or characteristic of this period.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet another comedy television project had foundered and he had become obsessed with over-population and restoring Victoriana.
      • Strangely, it is not in attempting to merge this intellectual Victoriana into believable characters that the play begins to display weaknesses.
      • She has preserved all the Biba signatures: the dusky palette, strong art deco and Victoriana influences, and long, sinuous silhouettes characterised by narrow arms and well-defined shoulders.
      • A taste for Victoriana characterizes his work of the early 1940s, while later pieces exhibit a move towards greater abstraction.
      • His Collected Poems sold over a million copies and as broadcaster he became a national institution, championing Victoriana and the disappearing ‘Metro-land’ of his youth.
 
 
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