victorine

¹

[ vik-tuh-reen ]

noun

1. a fur tippet with long tabs at the ends.

Victorine

²

[ vik-tuh-reen ]

noun

1. a canon regular of the Order of St. Victor, founded in Paris, France, in 1110, which was famous for its learning and influence in the Middle Ages, and which became extinct during the French Revolution.

Word History and Origins

Origin of victorine¹

1840–50; probably after Queen Victoria; -ine ²

Origin of victorine²

First recorded in 1880–85, Victorine is from the French word Victorin

Example Sentences

“COVAX was built on the status quo of market dynamics: Whoever pays the most is first in line,” says Victorine de Milliano, a policy adviser for the Doctors Without Borders Access Campaign.

From Science Magazine

Although the picture was more conventionally modeled than Manet’s work, it nonetheless had the same air of knowing make-believe as Manet’s 1860s renderings of Victorine Meurent in various costumes.

From Washington Post

If there's a reason Victorine Meurent is nude in Manet's famed painting "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe," it may well be because her dress, crumpled amidst the scattered detritus of lunch, was impossible to manage for the duration of the meal.

From Salon

But a witch doctor told them their girls, Victorine and Victoria Nikiema, needed to beg for money on the side of the road or risk being killed by a family member’s spirit.

From Seattle Times

Victorine’s first prize at the Conservatory in 1844 — one of several pupils of Louise’s to achieve that distinction — foreshadowed what the journal Le Ménestrel declared in 1845 would be the “reign of the women.”

From New York Times