I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a Georgian/Victorian/Edwardian etc house (= a house in Britain that was built during the reign of a particular king or queen )
▪
They live in a lovely old Edwardian house with high ceilings.
the modern/post-war/Victorian etc era
▪
a collection of romantic paintings from the Victorian era
the Victorian age (= the period 1837–1901 when Victoria was Queen of England )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
▪
The Victorian age was not simply one of progress, measured in terms of population growth and economic activity.
▪
Women who would be considered twenty to forty pounds over-weight today were just fine by the standards of the late Victorian age .
▪
But that's where the Victorian age ends.
▪
Such settlements were profoundly characteristic of the Victorian age .
▪
The Victorian Age None the less, the Otmoor riots mark the end of an era of open conflict on the wetlands.
▪
Where I think the problem lies is that the Victorian age was one which stressed personal salvation and the individual soul.
▪
As the Victorian age got under way, ever more ingenious technologies aided the steady advance of drainage.
building
▪
On Monday a few hundred gathered among the Victorian buildings of the city's George Square to mount a vigil.
▪
Although the old Victorian building with its spine of hutted wards was a vaguely familiar place, it was by no means home.
▪
These achievements are marked by gilded plaques fixed to wooden replicas of the cast-iron pillars which held up Victorian buildings .
▪
Downstream lies Freemantle, the seaport with restored colonial-style Victorian buildings .
▪
A massive, grey stone Victorian building , it housed over 1600 inmates, twice its allotted amount.
▪
The same story of crumbling Victorian buildings , tunnels, pipes and walls is being repeated in all Britain's major cities.
▪
There are many impressive Victorian buildings here in Hebden Bridge.
city
▪
It need not surprise anybody that Victorian cities were unhealthy places.
▪
Birmingham had a far greater diversity of occupation than Manchester and indeed than most other Victorian cities .
era
▪
That Angus Wilson respected the baggy monsters of the Victorian era is unquestionable.
▪
Skirt lengths rose again, but dropped quickly by the end of the 1800s in the Victorian era .
▪
Costing about £150,000, the exhibition traces the development of trams in towns and cities throughout Britain from the Victorian era .
▪
The Victorian era comes down to us today mired in images of distance and reserve.
▪
The Castillane Restaurant, four bars, all of which recapture the splendour of the Victorian era .
▪
Photography not only developed in the Victorian era but was also implicitly caught up in nineteenth-century interests and attitudes.
▪
The fashion for black and white dates from the Victorian era .
▪
At the beginning of the Victorian era , family property usually meant land.
family
▪
It conjures up images of Victorian family evenings round the piano.
▪
The Victorian family was the first family form in history which was both long-lasting and intimate.
▪
In the tightly-knit Victorian family , this prospect of permanent separation was more terrible than death itself.
▪
It was a large Victorian family kitchen, and looked so when it was empty or when only Mrs Beavis was there.
▪
The Victorian family would have had young children around until the parents were in their late middle age.
house
▪
Closely packed terraces of Victorian houses were spread outwards as the population grew.
▪
But a two-story Victorian house already has been moved, to allow the excavations and eventual construction work.
▪
They pull into the driveway of an old, white Victorian house .
▪
Opposite were the elegant backs of Victorian houses , their grey bricks swelling into bow-windows, the roof-tiles glistening like wet flint.
▪
Schultz had lived there with his wife and two children in a Victorian house for about two years, officials said.
▪
Then Rita noticed a large Victorian house for sale - one she had long admired.
▪
The yellow Victorian house on the property was owned by two unmarried Armistead sisters, who rented rooms to tourists.
mansion
▪
On the driveway up to the house, a Victorian mansion , two men are striding purposefully.
▪
Norton House Hotel A Victorian mansion house set in 55 acres.
▪
Their abandoned Victorian mansion has been bought by the local council to save it from ruin.
▪
It's a Victorian mansion in the grand manner.
▪
Margaret had told me the doctor now lived in a Victorian mansion in Ayr.
novel
▪
She would be around forty but had the appearance of a heroine in a Victorian novel - tall, willowy, ethereal.
▪
You go on home now, and put those Victorian novels away.
▪
One might with only slight exaggeration claim that firelight illuminates virtually every positive page in Victorian novels .
▪
She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy.
▪
Accounts as overt as Kingsley's are, as I have said, most unusual in Victorian novels .
▪
Social analysts and novelists alike seem determined to make these connections visible - hence the detective element in many Victorian novels .
▪
So just who did Luke think he was, behaving like the father in some Victorian novel ?
painting
▪
These influences and practices are being related to the nature and ideology of pre-Victorian and Victorian painting .
▪
He is an authority on, and collector of Victorian paintings particularly of the pre-Raphaelites and he is a bonvivant.
period
▪
To have a dual occupation was an ancient way of life that lingered on in this area well into the Victorian period .
▪
The Victorian period was one of tremendous economic and social change.
▪
With better education in the late Victorian period , literate girls could easily be found.
pub
▪
Grandiose Victorian pub with ornate plaster-work ceiling and a nice summer beer garden.
▪
Roomy High Victorian pub , with big bay windows and glass partitions.
▪
Surely it is time that breweries understood the importance of their Victorian pubs , and turned to conservation rather than mutilation.
▪
The Kenilworth A vintage Victorian pub well worth a visit for its rare fittings as well as for the drink.
▪
The Windsor Buffet Busy, popular Victorian pub , with secluded booths.
▪
Richly-decorated Saloon Bars more closely approximate to the modern idea of a Victorian pub .
society
▪
This accurately reflects the dominance of the family concept in Victorian society .
▪
A nineteenth-century tale of gothic suspense that takes its readers from the heights of Victorian society to its depths.
▪
The Victorian Society mounted a campaign to persuade us to take it on.
style
▪
Victoria Gardens - traditional Victorian style gardens provide a haven for tired shoppers.
terrace
▪
To the south lay a vast area of redevelopment, relieved only by the remains of a Victorian terrace .
▪
He thought the name singularly inappropriate: either side was lined with a wall of Victorian terrace villas.
▪
There was a vigorous life, both commercial and family, carried on in the basements of large Victorian terraces .
▪
Council houses started immediately behind Woolworth's. Victorian terraces butted up to the side of Marks and Spencer's.
times
▪
We had presumed, I think fairly reasonably, that this particular gentleman would figure large in any lecture on Victorian times .
▪
In Victorian times more than now boys were enjoined to be little men.
▪
Tiny baskets of cherries are tucked away in the display, an idea popular in Victorian times .
▪
The little tern's numbers have been threatened since Victorian times when it was hunted for its snow-white plumage.
▪
For those who see Methodism only through the solid shopkeeper image of Victorian times , this may seem a strange assertion.
▪
Later, in Victorian times , birds of prey were persecuted by game keepers, by taxidermists and by egg collectors.
▪
The importance of work and employment to those with mental disorder has, however, been recognized since Victorian times .
value
▪
And now Mrs Thatcher comes along and tells us we've got to return to Victorian values .
▪
Those particular Victorian values had been shot down about 1983.
▪
We hear a lot about returning to Victorian values .
▪
The former Prime Minister used to talk about Victorian values , and some of my hon. Friends have mentioned them this evening.
▪
This it did by demanding a return to the family and Victorian values .
▪
The Anti-Slavery Society has since had to adapt Victorian values to the post-Victorian world.
▪
The Victorian values so cherished by Thatcherism served the same hypocritical purpose.
▪
Dear Maggie, I feel I owe you an apology for abandoning your esteemed Victorian values .
woman
▪
After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women .
▪
What we have is Sigmund, not Ida, a Victorian male doctor, not a-middle-class Victorian woman .
▪
A Victorian woman posed by an urn.
▪
The main points of Mary Kingsley's remarkable story have appeared in compendiums on Victorian women travellers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Victorian architecture
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women.
▪
Although the old Victorian building with its spine of hutted wards was a vaguely familiar place, it was by no means home.
▪
Built in 1872, the Victorian prison has had its fair share of history.
▪
Costing about £150,000, the exhibition traces the development of trams in towns and cities throughout Britain from the Victorian era.
▪
It may be a Victorian attitude, but we live off income, not capital.
▪
Its old courthouse, streets lined with Victorian homes and town square scream heartland.
▪
The flapper rebelled not only against Victorian manners and morality but against the body that went with it.
▪
The same story of crumbling Victorian buildings, tunnels, pipes and walls is being repeated in all Britain's major cities.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
He had just been, for a Victorian , exceptionally well loved.
▪
The picture of politics drawn here is not one that a literate Victorian would recognise.
▪
Victoria was not much of a Victorian , with her mistrust of the church and distaste for earnestness in general.
▪
What comes through is a totally idealized notion of the maternal, the maternal perhaps as envisaged by a Victorian .