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Victoriana

Victoriana

1 9.9
Old decorative objects from the Victorian era that people collect
  • noun
  • /vɪkˈtɔriˌɑnə/
translation icon : victoriana
  • The museum's exhibit on Victoriana showcased furniture and fashion from the Victorian era.
  • museum of Victoriana
  • Victoriana, vintage

Examples

  • She edits the multicultural steampunk blog Beyond Victoriana.

    Blog text (21)

  • Author's Bio: Ay-leen the Peacemaker is the founding editor of Beyond Victoriana (beyondvictoriana.com), a blog about multicultural steampunk and retrofuturism.

    Blog text (22)

  • Gives the place a Victoriana feel.

    The Castle (1997)

  • I just have my Victoriana lace dress which I can't throw away.

  • It's been done before, but this is the first time a publisher has smuttified Victoriana and the like on such a scale.

    Blog text (14)

  • It's this beautiful, beautiful sort of Victoriana style embroidered dress by Miss Selfridge.

  • It looked like a prize exhibit from a museum of Victoriana: a bath that perhaps Burton or Stanley had taken with them on their travels.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • I think they're really, it's really pretty and it'll be very sort of Victoriana cute day wear, easy, youthful, all those words that we love.

  • The power that lets you reach more places, because underneath all the distorted Victoriana stylings, that showy skull mask, and the artful violence,

    Blog text (22)

  • The 50s and 60s junk hardware is still there, along with some of the more mundane Victoriana, but it seems more normal; none of the odd items of punishment memorabilia are there.

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

antique
vsVictoriana
109 5.6

An object made long ago and valued for its age or beauty

is limited to items from one specific historical era rather than any past period
virtu
vsVictoriana
  • Archaic
9.9

Art objects and antiques kept for their beauty or history

focuses on items from one historical era rather than on artistic quality

Surface Forms

Victoriana singular
Victoriana plural

Morphology

Victoriana = Victorian (semi-transparent) = Victoria + ana

Formed by adding the specialized suffix '-ana' to 'Victorian' to denote a collection of items related to that era; the suffix is specialized and may not be obvious to many learners.

Etymology

Victoriana comes from Victoria, the name of the British queen, and the ending -ana, which means 'things connected with', as in Americana. So Victoriana means objects and decorations from 'Victoria's time', especially things people collect for their old style.