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Victorian

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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-Victorian era.

Now death by the mid-Victorian was considered almost as undesirable an element in society as sex itself.

But to Bierce's mind, "noble and nude and antique," this mid-Victorian draping and bedecking of "unpleasant truths" was abhorrent.

Bad puns were evidently common on the stage before the days of Victorian burlesque.

Before morning the Victorian would be running up the St. Lawrence.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to Victorian, such as: conservative, square, stiff, conventional, demure, and genteel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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