Meaning of Tudorize | Babel Free

Definitions

To alter according to Tudor period styles and ideas.

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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Along one side is a younger row of yew trees: they probably represent an attempt to Tudorize the garden a hundred years ago.”

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

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

“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.”

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