tudorize

present singular third person tudorizes · participle present tudorizing · participle past tudorized · past tudorized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Tudorize.

   The l. end of the s range is of 1769, but tudorized.

   1975, Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, page 73

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   The result is a brighter, more cohesive atmosphere which preserves the older feelings without “tudorizing" the entire base.

   1984, Air Force Engineering & Services Quarterly

   The fine English disregard for foreign words that had been noticeable earlier continues when we hear of the "Lavoltos" danced by Marsons' nymphs and shepherds in the Triumphs of Oriana (1601), la volta being one of the queen's favourite dances, but the English had always a healthy interest in things continental (we have already mentioned above the anglicized norman cathedral of the twelfth century and the tudorized French courtly-love ethic of Henry viii's reign), and their interest increasingly turned to Italy as the sixteenth century progressed.

   2014, James Haar, European Music, 1520-1640, page 503

present singular third person Tudorizes · participle present Tudorizing · participle past Tudorized · past Tudorized · alternative Tudorise · alternative tudorize · alternative tudorise

1. transitiveTo alter according to the styles and ideas of the Tudor period.

   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

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   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

   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