Victwardian

Definitions

Pertaining to, or characteristic or reminiscent of, the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1837–1910)

not-comparable

Examples

“an amateur method of do-it-yourself exterior house-painting, developed out of military camouflage, whose purpose is, precisely, camouflage: to disguise the silhouettes of Victwardian buildings, to break⟳ up the outlines of their structure⟳ or pseudo-structure”

“The present⟳ inflation of Catullus into a sort⟳ of major poet is no doubt⟳ in great part due to Victwardian scholars and their naïve biographical impromptus on the juvenile infatuation the poems record⟳ for “Lesbia,” whose real name⟳ (a writer 200 years after the event assures us) was Clodia.”

“Elsewhere there are Victwardian street lamps, cute signs shaped like⟳ miniature Belvedere towers, and fanciful strings of lights.”

“They also enjoyed that quintessential Victwardian (to coin a phrase) holiday treat⟳: riding donkeys over the sands of Tynemouth.”

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