Tudorize

English

Alternative forms

• Tudorise, tudorize, tudorise

Etymology

From Tudor +‎ -ize.

Verb

Tudorize (third-person singular simple present Tudorizes, present participle Tudorizing, simple past and past participle Tudorized)

1. To alter according to Tudor period styles and ideas.
   • 1880, The Cabinet Maker and Art Furnisher - Volume 1, page 190:

     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.

   • 1968, Howard Mumford Jones, William Charvat, Scholarship, Novelty, and Teaching:

     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.

   • 1989, California - Volume 14, page 106:

     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.

   • 1998, Charles Quest-Ritson, The House & Garden Book of Country Gardens, page 101:

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