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pseudo-Tudo

pseudo-Tudo adjective: in a style similar to Tudor or mock-Tudor architecture; faux Tudor.

Adjective

pseudo-Tudo (not generally comparable, comparative more pseudo-Tudo, superlative most pseudo-Tudo)

  1. (derogatory, not comparable, uncommon, usually) In a style similar to Tudor or mock-Tudor architecture; faux Tudor.
    • Then I went to the Grafton Cinema to have supper in the pseudy tudy interior.1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, France, page 175
    • The game we play, it’s got its risks, but it’s a heady, intoxicating game, better than nine-to-fiving it and sex, cocktails and rows in a pseudo-Tudo cottage near Sevenoaks.1964, Robin Cook, The Crust on its Uppers

Noun

pseudo-Tudo (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, uncommon) An architectural style using elements of Tudor or Tudor revival architecture, or a building employing such style, especially one judged to be inauthentic or of lower quality.
    • […] dormers and leaded panes abounded, and so did angles, bright tiles and horizontal windows, the gnomes having combined Pseudo-Tudo with Lutyens-Functional.1946, Stella Gibbons, Westwood: Or, the Gentle Powers, page 239
    • When the public has been so educated that nobody will want to borrow money for Repro-Jacco or Pseudo-Tudo, the building societies will be only too eager to lend1960, “New Towns and the Metropolitan Problem”, in Town & Country Planning, page 117

Forms of pseudo-Tudo

comparativemore pseudo-Tudo
superlativemost pseudo-Tudo
alternative formpseudo-tudo
alternative formPseudo-Tudo
alternative formpseudo tudo
alternative formpseudy tudy
alternative formpseudie tudie

Origin of pseudo-Tudo

From pseudo- + Tudor, with the latter element reduced, resulting in internal rhyme. Compare variant pseudy tudy. Attested from the mid 20th century (see quotations below).

Questions about pseudo-Tudo

What does pseudo-Tudo mean?
Pseudo-Tudo means in a style similar to Tudor or mock-Tudor architecture; faux Tudor.
What part of speech is pseudo-Tudo?
Pseudo-Tudo can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pseudo-Tudo in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-state
  2. pseudo-states
  3. pseudo-telepathy
  4. pseudo-TLD
  5. pseudo-TLDs
  6. pseudo-Tudo
  7. pseudo-type
  8. pseudo-types
  9. pseudo-umbilical
  10. pseudoabelian
  11. pseudoabsence

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