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Definition of "victorine" [vic•tor•ine]

  • A woman's fur tippet, fastened at the neck (noun)

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Use "victorine" in a sentence
  • "And could it be explained otherwise than by cheerfully acknowledging the bounty of an overruling Providence that Nancy Wentworth should have had a new winter dress for the first time in five years -- a winter dress of dark brown cloth to match her beaver muff and victorine?"
  • "A winnowing machine stood close beside her, and to relieve her suspense she gently moved the handle; whereupon a cloud of wheat husks flew out into her face, and covered her clothes and bonnet, and stuck into the fur of her victorine."
  • "As Elizabeth neither assented nor dissented Donald Farfrae began blowing her back hair, and her side hair, and her neck, and the crown of her bonnet, and the fur of her victorine, Elizabeth saying, "O, thank you," at every puff."
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