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Victoria crape

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Victoria crape
    A kind of cotton crape.
Usage in literature

Now and then a victoria would roll by in which women lolled, heavily veiled with crape. "The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories" by Gertrude Atherton

A very successful imitation of real crape is made in Manchester of cotton yarn, and sold under the name of Victoria crape. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6" by Various