pseudo-Tudo

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1. derogatorynot comparableuncommonusuallyarchitectureIn a style similar to Tudor or mock-Tudor architecture; faux Tudor.

   Then I went to the Grafton Cinema to have supper in the pseudy tudy interior.

   1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, France, page 175

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   The game we play, it’s got its risks, but it’s a heady, intoxicating game, better than nine-to-fiving it and sex, cocktails and rows in a pseudo-Tudo cottage near Sevenoaks.

   1964, Robin Cook, The Crust on its Uppers

   also pseudo-tudo describing an architectural style popular in the UK Home Counties, featuring fake beams and the other appurtenances of (Hollywood-style) Elizabethan and Tudor England.

   [2023 March 28, Jonathon Green, “pseudie tudie”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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1. derogatoryuncommonuncountablearchitectureAn architectural style using elements of Tudor or Tudor revival architecture, or a building employing such style, especially one judged to be inauthentic or of lower quality.

   I react (badly) to early-20th-century commercial versions of the period styles by name calling: Pseudo-Tudo, Frizzie-Lizzie, Phooey-Louis, and Phony-Colonie.

   1987, John Crosby Freeman, “Post-Victorian interiors”, in Old-House Journal, page 58

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   […] dormers and leaded panes abounded, and so did angles, bright tiles and horizontal windows, the gnomes having combined Pseudo-Tudo with Lutyens-Functional.

   1946, Stella Gibbons, Westwood: Or, the Gentle Powers, page 239

   When the public has been so educated that nobody will want to borrow money for Repro-Jacco or Pseudo-Tudo, the building societies will be only too eager to lend

   1960, “New Towns and the Metropolitan Problem”, in Town & Country Planning, page 117