Tudorize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To alter according to Tudor period styles and ideas.
"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."
- 2 Alternative form of Tudorize. alt-of, alternative
"The l. end of the s range is of 1769, but tudorized."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Tudor + -ize.