tudorise

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A form of tudorize — To alter according to the styles and ideas of the Tudor period.

Scrabble 9

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tudorise1

verbtudorise (third-person singular simple present tudorises, present participle tudorising, simple past and past participle tudorised)

present singular third person tudorises · participle present tudorising · participle past tudorised · past tudorised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Tudorize.

    One is at least thankful that the brewery have retained the excellent early nineteenth-century glazing and not tried to tudorise the fenestration .

    1985, The Bedfordshire Magazine - Volume 20, page 254
    2 more examples

    Such works as this thankfully near-forgotten 'First Sussex Opera', together with much of Gilbert and Sullivan and the Merrie England (1902) of Edward German, added considerably to the construction of Georgina Boyes's 'Imagined Village' of the popular mind, a rural half-timbered world of tudorised rustics who embodied the 'real' spirit of England.

    1999, Alan Kidd, David Nicholls, Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism

    I took up the rear, carrying an exhausted Joanne, who was playing with the hairs in my ears. From the consternation ahead I realised something was wrong.'Stop that, Joanne. It hurts.' Over a sun-burnt scalp and framed in a squatly tudorised arch, I had a glimpse of Addises swarming round the altar of the Memorial Chamber against delicate columns and finials of spun egg yolk and icing sugar.

    2012, Nicholas Hancock, Short Stories, page 69

Tudorise2

verbTudorise (third-person singular simple present Tudorises, present participle Tudorising, simple past and past participle Tudorised)

present singular third person Tudorises · participle present Tudorising · participle past Tudorised · past Tudorised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Tudorize.

    The big room had been virtually rebuilt, and Tudorised with a monstrously heavy hand.

    2016, Ellis Peters, The Complete Felse Investigations
    2 more examples

    The idea being that we mock Tudorise the front of Deitch Projects in New York and then try to sell the work to someone who then has bought the right to mock Tudorise their own building.

    2006, Marco Livingstone, Gordon Burn, Richard Woods, page 80

    But the brewery that had taken it over had decided to Tudorise it with fake plastic beams, uncomfortable settles and things like brass bedpans which the new owners fondly believed to be some sort of cooking equipment.

    2017, M.C. Beaton, Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree

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Chicago

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