noun
- A person who lived during the reign of Victoria.
adjective
- Of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled.
- usage: "Victorian morals"
- Exaggeratedly proper.
- usage: "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced
- Typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria. .
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