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Victoria's Secret

Victoria's Secret proper noun: a retail marketer of women's clothing and beauty products, best known for lingerie, founded in San Francisco in 1977.

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.
    • 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[…]2006, Anne Stuart, Cold As Ice, MIRA,, →ISBN, page 109
    • […] 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.2007 April 16, Rob Hoyt, Nell Boyce (reporter), "Space Tethers: Slinging Objects in Orbit?", Morning Edition, National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9574513

Origin of Victoria's Secret

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.

Questions about Victoria's Secret

What does Victoria's Secret mean?
Victoria's Secret means a retail marketer of women's clothing and beauty products, best known for lingerie, founded in San Francisco in 1977.
What part of speech is Victoria's Secret?
Victoria's Secret is a proper noun.

Words near Victoria's Secret in the dictionary

  1. Victoria spongecake
  2. Victoria spongecakes
  3. Victoria sponges
  4. Victoria Valley
  5. Victoria Village
  6. Victoria's Secret
  7. Victoriae
  8. Victorian
  9. Victorian sponge
  10. Victorian sponge cake
  11. Victorian sponge cakes

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