tudorize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of Tudorize.
Example Sentences
- "He wishes the balustrade to be an architectural symphony, and suggests a sunset effect in the draperies to give certain lambent devices, as it were, and then protests, after the manner of Mrs. Micawber, that he will never Tudorize Greek ideas."
- "The dramatist availed himself of the scholarship of his age — North's version of Plutarch, Holinshed's Chronicles, and much else — but he did not Tudorize history as we seem to want to Freudianize writing."
- "It was a cinch to Tudorize a condo: stick a couple of brown beams in the white stucco, maybe slap a phony gable on the roof, and voila — instant tradition and status."
- "Along one side is a younger row of yew trees: they probably represent an attempt to Tudorize the garden a hundred years ago."
- "The l. end of the s range is of 1769, but tudorized."
- "The result is a brighter, more cohesive atmosphere which preserves the older feelings without “tudorizing" the entire base."
Etymology
From Tudor + -ize.