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Tudor, a. and n.|ˈtjuːdə(r)|
[attrib. use of the surname Tudor (in Welsh Tewdwr): see below.]
A. adj.
1. Belonging to the line of English sovereigns (from Henry VII to Elizabeth I) descended from Owen Tudor, who married Catherine, the widowed queen of Henry V.
1779Mirror No. 18 ⁋9 In England,..the high prerogative exerted by the Princes of the Tudor race. 1906Q. Rev. July 56 A Tudor dynasty held the throne.
2. Applied to the style of architecture (the latest form of Perpendicular) which prevailed in England during the reigns of the Tudors; belonging to, characteristic of, or resembling this. Also of interior decoration.
Tudor arch, the flattened form of arch characteristic of the Tudor style. Tudor flower, an upright stalked trefoil ornament used in long rows on cornices, etc. in Tudor architecture. Tudor rose, a conventional figure of a rose adopted as a badge by Henry VII, occurring in architectural and other decoration in the Tudor period; in Her. figured as a combination of a red and a white rose (either a smaller rose set upon a larger, or a single rose with the two tinctures divided quarterly). Also Tudor-style adj.
1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 131 [An arch] of four centres, commonly called the Tudor arch. 1842Tennyson E. Morris 11 A Tudor-chimnied bulk Of mellow brickwork. 1848Rickman Archit. 212 What has been called the Tudor flower, an ornament used instead of battlement, as an upper finish. 1860Weale Dict. Terms s.v. Tudor Badges, [Henry VII] assumed the Tudor rose, or the red rose charged with the white, as emblematical of his united claims to the throne. 1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am ii, It was a Tudor house. 1902G. E. Mitton Hampstead & Marylebone 23 There is the police-station..and adjacent an interesting Tudor house, which, though not old, is well built. 1928Kipling Bk. of Words 267, I have only to leave the Tudor grill⁓room, take the electric lift upstairs. 1953R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 177 A chintzy Tudor-style hotel. 1955M. Gilbert Sky High viii. 116 They had a glass of sherry in the Tudor Bar, followed by a meal in the Jacobean Dining-Room. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 42/6 (Advt.), Charming Tudor bungalow with pretty garden. 1978J. Pudney Thank Goodness for Cake 82 Their Tudor-style manor house. 1979R. Jaffe Class Reunion ii. iv. 156 Would they like this Tudor house, or that Spanish one?
B. n.
a. Mock-Tudor style.
b. N. Amer. A house in mock-Tudor style.
1939, etc. [see stockbroker's Tudor s.v. stock-broker, stockbroker b]. 1961‘J. le Carré’ Call for Dead iv. 37 The Fountain Café..was all Tudor and horse brasses. 1969E. Sandon View into Village 93 At the Somerton corner is the Boxted and Hartest Club erected..in 1888, in red brick Tudor, with two gigantic oriel windows. 1969P. Zelver Honey Bunch vii. 35 The Swopes lived on one side of the McKittricks in an English Tudor. 1980News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 28 Oct. wa–5/5 This tudor is located on a circular street with many trees.
So Tudoresque |-ˈrɛsk| a., characteristic of the Tudors or the Tudor period; in or resembling the Tudor style, in architecture or art.
1847Helps Friends in C. I. v. 81 Those Protestant proceedings, which we may rather hope were Tudoresque than Protestant. 1881Oakey Build. Home 101 An old sixteenth-century Tudoresque house. 1893Athenæum 20 May 635/1 We have the Tudoresque, the Caroline, the Restoration, and other styles [of book-plates].
Add:[A.] [2.] b. More generally: of, belonging to, or characteristic of the period of the House of Tudor; reminiscent of this age. Freq. in Comb., as Tudor–Stuart.
1872Goldw. Smith in Fortn. Rev. Mar. 254 The great Elizabethan mansions..are the graceful monuments of the Tudor land-grabbers. 1920T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 15 The Tudor–Stuart dramatists. 1939O. Lancaster Homes Sweet Homes 10 All over Europe the lights are going out, oil-lamps, gas-mantles, electroliers, olde Tudor lanthorns. 1964D. Owen Eng. Philanthropy (1965) iii. xiii. 363 Wealthy merchants of the Tudor–Stuart era..might endow a grammar school in their native town. 1990Essays in Crit. XL. 6 It is hardly surprising that we find nothing like the triumphalist or Tudor vision of England in the English writing of the period.
ˈTudorish a. = Tudoresque a.
1965C. Forsyte Double Death xii. 97 A small bar with a Tudorish timbered roof. 1983S. Barlay Price of Silence ii. 41 A street of largish, Tudorish semi-detached houses. |