"Victwardian" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: * Blend of Victorian + Edwardian. Compare Jacobethan. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|Victorian|Edwardian}} Blend of Victorian + Edwardian Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Victwardian (not comparable)
  1. Pertaining to, or characteristic or reminiscent of, the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1837–1910) Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: Belle Époque
    Sense id: en-Victwardian-en-adj-IwBXSSFn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "David Vichnar (2013) The Avant-Postman: James Joyce, the Avant-Garde & Postmodernism, Prague: Charles University, page 42",
          "text": "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",
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          "ref": "Steven Moore, editor (2017), “Quis Haec Potest Perferre? Qui Possit Pati”, in On the Decay of Criticism: The Complete Essays of W. M. Spackman, Fantagraphics, →ISBN, page 197",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Elsewhere there are Victwardian street lamps, cute signs shaped like miniature Belvedere towers, and fanciful strings of lights.",
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          "ref": "2014 June, William Gaul, “The Atkinsons At Home”, in Joburg Heritage Journal, volume 1, archived from the original on 2013-08-18:",
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