‖ victoria1
(vɪkˈtɔərɪə)
[L. victōria (or Sp. and Pg. victoria): see victory n.]
1. The word employed as a shout of triumph.
| 1638 Ford Lady's Trial ii. i, Steal her away and to her Cast caps and cry victoria! 1672 Dryden Assignation iv. iv, Victoria, Victoria! he loves you, madam. 1691 Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 284 The judicious reader..may easily rout those Troops, which began too soon to cry victoria, and thought..but of dividing the spoil. 1855 Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxxi, ‘There go the rest of them! Victoria!’ shouted Cary, as..every Spaniard set all the sail he could. 1861 Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. Part. III. clxi. 175 The opposite party at the same time made simpletons of themselves by throwing up their caps and crying ‘victoria’. |
| transf. 1863 Bradford Advertiser 18 July 5/2, If you conquered, all the post-horns in Europe were set to sound ‘Victoria!’ |
2. (With capital initial.) A figure of the goddess Victory.
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| a 1700 Evelyn Diary 6 May 1645, The stamp of the Roman Denarius varied;..if with a Victoria, so nam'd. |