pseudo-Gothicn.adj.
/ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈɡɒθɪk/, U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈɡɑθɪk/ A. n.
A style of architecture, literature, printing, etc., that simulates or is erroneously held to be Gothic.
ΚΠ
1847 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Feb. 141 The voice of fashion drowns that of reason and of taste, and every congregation must have its quantum of pseudo-Gothic.
1876 E. A. Freeman Gen. Sketch European Hist. 201 The Renaissance inherited from the pseudo-Gothic of Italy.
1932 Times 3 Oct. 15/5 May I..congratulate The Times on the decision to give up pseudo-Gothic in its title and to adopt the oldest and most practical of all alphabets now in use?
1954 A. Voyce Moscow Kremlin v. 28 Its ornamental motifs, which have a touch of the pseudo Gothic, influenced the Moscow architects of the second half of the eighteenth century.
2005 Independent (Nexis) 22 Oct. (Features section) 17 The mix of Renaissance and pseudo-Gothic is nothing compared to the splendours of the 1930s Art Deco-tiled bathroom inside.
B. adj.
Of the nature of or characterized by pseudo-Gothic; that pretends to be Gothic, sham Gothic.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period
classical1546
pastoral1566
classic1597
Medicean1652
romantic1812
tedesco1814
realistic1829
realista1832
pseudo-classic1833
classicist1838
pseudo-classical1838
renaissant1839
modernist1848
post-classic1850
post-classical1851
pseudo-Gothic1853
classicizing1865
classicistic1866
serio-grotesque1873
geometric1877
neoclassical1877
modernistic1878
neoclassic1878
pseudo-archaic1878
William Morris1883
protocorinthian1884
veristic1884
William and Mary1886
Yuan1888
romanticistic1889
veritistic1894
auto-destructive1895
pre-Romantic1895
Trajanic1906
neo-realistic1909
New Romantic1909
neo-realist1912
futuristic1915
postmodern1916
Dada1918
Dadaist1918
surrealist1918
proto-Romantic1920
expressionistic1921
modernista1924
super-realist1925
superrealistic1925
postmodernist1926
proto-Baroque1926
post-symbolist1927
pre-modernist1927
surrealistic1930
Renaissancist1932
Colonial Revival1934
neo-baroque1935
socialist-realist1935
social realist1949
social realistic1949
kitchen sink1954
William IV1955
formalistic1957
Zhdanovite1957
neo-Dadaist1960
neo-modernist1960
William Morrisy1960
neo-Dada1962
Zhdanovist1966
conceptual1969
conceptualist1973
po-mo1987
pathetic1990
1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Sept. 245/2 The Church..is a novelty amid the universal display of pseudo-Gothic architecture.
1896 Harper's Mag. Oct. 668/2 A beautiful pseudo-Gothic castle which was tenanted for a while by Prince de Carabas-Chenonceaux.
1926 C. Oman Castles i. 44 The most abominable pseudoGothic assize-court in all England, a compound of mock-Norman arches, pepper-box turrets,..and large round-topped windows.
1981 G. Clare Last Waltz in Vienna (1982) I. 63 The whole mock-Grecian, fake baroque and pseudo-gothic mixture.
1993 San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chron. 10 Jan. t1/1 The pseudo-Gothic church [is] far too overwrought for such a small town.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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