Victoria's Secret
English
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Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- 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. […]
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She told him her Victoria’s Secret things were in the bottom drawer, to save him the trouble of searching for them.
Translations
[edit]retail marketer
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