Victoria's Secret

English

Etymology

Founded in 1977 and named after Queen Victoria, for an association with the refinement of the Victorian era, the "secret" being the body concealed by the clothing.

Proper noun

Victoria's Secret

1. A retail marketer of women's clothing and beauty products, best known for lingerie, founded in San Francisco in 1977.
   • 2006, Anne Stuart, Cold As Ice, MIRA,, →ISBN, page 109:

     You might even find some new clothes, though I doubt it. Harry's guests were usually anorexic models wearing Victoria’s Secret. Not that you wouldn't be delicious in sexy underwear […]

   • 2007 April 16, Rob Hoyt, Nell Boyce (reporter), "Space Tethers: Slinging Objects in Orbit?", Morning Edition, National Public Radio [1]

     […] that’s normally used for fabricating things like lacy edgings on, you know, Victoria’s Secret undergarments. We’ve developed ways to use that to braid the multi-line tether structure that we’re testing in space.

   • 2009, Marilyn Brant, According to Jane, Kensington Books,, →ISBN, page 10:

     Then she, with her Victoria’s Secret uplift and her cheerleader’s outfit snugly back on, adjusted her leg warmers, slipped on her gold-glittered Nikes and blotted her hot-pink lipstick with a tissue as she tracked my far-less-fashionable footsteps down the hallway toward algebra.

   • 2009, Derek V. Brooks, 18th & M, AEG Publishing Group,, →ISBN, page 96:

     He looked at her lying there in her Victoria’s Secret that she planned to share with him.

   • 2010, Joe Hill, Horns, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 91 and 250:

     Beneath was a Victoria’s Secret catalog, and the Rolling Stone with Demi Moore naked on the cover. […]
     […]
     She told him her Victoria’s Secret things were in the bottom drawer, to save him the trouble of searching for them.

Translations

retail marketer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維多利亞的秘密／维多利亚的秘密 (Wéiduōlìyà de mìmì)

• Japanese: ヴィクトリアズ・シークレット (Vikutoriazu-Shīkuretto)
• Russian: Секре́т Викто́рии m (Sekrét Viktórii), Виктори́а’с Си́крет m (Viktória's Síkrɛt)