Citations:victoria

English citations of victoria

• February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:

  "Then what became of her?"

  "Her? Which 'her'? The park is full of 'hers.'"

  "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."

  "Not improbably. I presume she does sometimes take the air. And possibly she may be the happy owner of a Gainsborough hat with green feathers."

  "Don't be frivolous, please. She was in that victoria."

  "Then perhaps she was too impecunious to drive both ways."

• 1907, Robert Chambers, “1/2”, in The Younger Set‎^[1]:

  It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue ; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current ; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau ; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

• 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 131

  Black victorias drive in between pompous pillars with plaster shields stuck to them.

• 2003 — We drove to the railroad station in a one-horse victoria, perhaps the last of a legendary line already extinct in the rest of the world. — Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1, 2002. Translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman.