victoria

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Two ladies in a victoria were advertising their toilettes.

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  1. noun A low, light four-wheeled carriage for two with a folding top and an elevated driver's seat in front.
  2. noun A touring car with a folding top usually covering only the rear seat.

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  • At full volume. matlock: at victoria, after fantastically interesting dinner. —  Haddock Blogs
  • I ate my lunch and ordered the victoria, and put on my prettiest bonnet and drove over to see you as fast as ever the horses would bring me. —  A Young Mutineer
  • As he kept on he warmed up to his subject Shall I call a victoria?" —  Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros
  • I should just simply love to be lolling back in the victoria, all frills and feathers, and the crocodiles to march by. —  The Heart of Una Sackville
  • I wish I could take you up to Cap Martin with me, if you are ready to go that way, but perhaps it would be wiser not--especially as the victoria isn't my own Kate Gardiner had not been in the hotel an hour when a box was brought to her door by the Marchese Loria's valet. —  The Castle Of The Shadows
 

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