Victwardian en · ADJ
Etymology
* Blend of Victorian + Edwardian. Compare Jacobethan.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to, or characteristic or reminiscent of, the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1837–1910)
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
David Vichnar (2013), The Avant-Postman: James Joyce, the Avant-Garde & Postmodernism, Prague: Charles University, page 42The 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.
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 197Elsewhere there are Victwardian street lamps, cute signs shaped like miniature Belvedere towers, and fanciful strings of lights.
1993, Catherine Ormell, “Perspective: Sculpture at Chelsea Harbour”, in World Architecture, number 24, →ISSN, page 91:They also enjoyed that quintessential Victwardian (to coin a phrase) holiday treat: riding donkeys over the sands of Tynemouth.
2014 June, William Gaul, “The Atkinsons At Home”, in Joburg Heritage Journal, volume 1, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2013: