tudorize

English

Verb

tudorize (third-person singular simple present tudorizes, present participle tudorizing, simple past and past participle tudorized)

1. Alternative form of Tudorize
   • 1975, Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, page 73:

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

   • 1984, Air Force Engineering & Services Quarterly:

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

   • 2014, James Haar, European Music, 1520-1640, page 503:

     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.