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Tudorize en · VERB

Etymology

From Tudor + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To alter according to the styles and ideas of the Tudor period.
   • It was a cinch to Tudorize a condo: stick a couple of brown beams in the white stucco, maybe slap a phony gable on the roof, and voila — instant tradition and status. 1989, California - Volume 14, page 106:
   • Along one side is a younger row of yew trees: they probably represent an attempt to Tudorize the garden a hundred years ago. 1998, Charles Quest-Ritson, The House & Garden Book of Country Gardens, page 101:
   • He wishes the balustrade to be an architectural symphony, and suggests a sunset effect in the draperies to give certain lambent devices, as it were, and then protests, after the manner of Mrs. Micawber, that he will never Tudorize Greek ideas. 1880, The Cabinet Maker and Art Furnisher - Volume 1, page 190:
   • The dramatist availed himself of the scholarship of his age — North's version of Plutarch, Holinshed's Chronicles, and much else — but he did not Tudorize history as we seem to want to Freudianize writing. 1968, Howard Mumford Jones, William Charvat, Scholarship, Novelty, and Teaching:

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