tudorise

English

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of Tudorize
   • 1985, The Bedfordshire Magazine - Volume 20, page 254:

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

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

     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.

   • 2012, Nicholas Hancock, Short Stories, page 69:

     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.

Anagrams

• Rideouts, dries out, editours, iodurets, outrides, outsider, rideouts, rutoside, suitored, turoside