1. victorian - Noun
2. victorian - Adjective
3. victorian - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. W. Somerset Maugham
When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous. Margaret Atwood
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase. William F. Buckley
The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass. P. G. Wodehouse
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Lytton Strachey
Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any. Robert A. Heinlein