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Tudorbethan

Tudorbethan adjective: mock-Tudor; designed to resemble a Tudor or Elizabethan architectural style.

tudorbethan: mock-Tudor; designed to resemble a Tudor or Elizabethan architectural style
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Adjective

Tudorbethan (not comparable)

  1. Mock-Tudor; designed to resemble a Tudor or Elizabethan architectural style.
    • This same essay, much of which is explicitly directed against the Tudorbethan ‘aesthetic’ of the Prince of Wales, concludes with Ballard saying: ‘I look forward to … the transformation of Britain into the ultimate departure lounge.’2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9
    • [...] on what John Betjeman called 'these mild home county acres' the Metropolitan would create Metroland, a series of Tudorbethan havens for the office toilers of London, destroying the mildness of those acres in the process, of course.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 169

Origin of Tudorbethan

Blend of Tudor + Elizabethan.

Questions about Tudorbethan

What does Tudorbethan mean?
Tudorbethan means mock-Tudor; designed to resemble a Tudor or Elizabethan architectural style.
What part of speech is Tudorbethan?
Tudorbethan is an adjective.

Words near Tudorbethan in the dictionary

  1. Tudor bonnets
  2. Tudor flower
  3. Tudor flowers
  4. Tudor rose
  5. Tudor roses
  6. Tudorbethan
  7. Tudoresque
  8. tudorise
  9. tudorised
  10. tudorises
  11. tudorising

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