Victorian
/vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ adjective B2- Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, or that period.
- In a situation of poverty and social injustice; Dickensian.
- Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period.
- Of or displaying the (supposed) ideals or standards of morality of that period; conservative; also, old-fashioned, out-of-date.
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Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.
I should judge it was of all sorts of ages and styles, starting on a half-timbered Elizabethan foundation and ending in a Victorian portico.
The door opened to admit a thin, austere figure with a hatchet face and drooping mid-Victorian whiskers of a glossy blackness which hardly corresponded with the rounded shoulders and feeble gait.
The monumental task of rectifying this catastrophic sanitation failure was entrusted to Joseph Bazalgette, a remarkably visionary and resilient civil engineer of the Victorian era.
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