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victoria cross
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Victoria Cross ( VC ) is the highest award of the United Kingdom honours system . It is awarded for gallantry " in the face of the enemy " to members of the British armed forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Victoria \Vic*to"ri*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five ...
Usage examples of victoria cross.
King of Scotland, Victoria Cross, KBE, MBE, Governor of Kiboga and Mayor of Bukake!
Braithwaite that her son Richard had been killed in action, displaying great heroism in the process, and that he was recommending him for a posthumous Victoria Cross.
It was in the form of a Maltese or Victoria Cross, and bore the letters of the word VICTORIA.
The goggles bounced on his Victoria Cross as he bounded up the last few steps and walked across the roof scratching his beard.
Lord Chelmsford has cited him for the award of the Victoria Cross.
Why, I couldn't win the Victoria Cross, even though I had earned it ten times over.
I would get a pension in due time, and my Victoria Cross carried a resounding fifty dollars a year with it: I would take these rewards and be grateful.
He was given the Victoria Cross for this exploit, but for a long time he had to use canes to walk and an arm-sling.
The taller of the two old men limped slightly on an artificial leg and was a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a holder of the highest award for valour that the Empire could offer, the Victoria Cross, and he was also one of the most eminent military historians of the age, a man so rich and careless of worldly wealth that he seldom bothered to count his fortune.
He wore the Italian Medal for Military Valor in gold, a medal equivalent to the British Victoria Cross and very rarely awarded.