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English
Etymology
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).
Adjective
pseudo-Tudo (not generally comparable, comparative more pseudo-Tudo, superlative most pseudo-Tudo)
- (architecture, derogatory, uncommon) In a style similar to Tudor or mock-Tudor architecture; faux Tudor.
1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, France, page 175:Then I went to the Grafton Cinema to have supper in the pseudy tudy interior.
1964, Robin Cook, The Crust on its Uppers: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.
:also pseudo-tudo
describing an architectural style popular in the UK Home Counties, featuring fake beams and the other appurtenances of (Hollywood-style) Elizabethan and Tudor England.]
Noun
pseudo-Tudo (uncountable)
- (architecture, 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.
1946, Stella Gibbons, Westwood: Or, the Gentle Powers, page 239:[…] dormers and leaded panes abounded, and so did angles, bright tiles and horizontal windows, the gnomes having combined Pseudo-Tudo with Lutyens-Functional.
1960, “New Towns and the Metropolitan Problem”, in Town & Country Planning, page 117: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 lend
1987, John Crosby Freeman, “Post-Victorian interiors”, in Old-House Journal, page 58:I react (badly) to early-20th-century commercial versions of the period styles by name calling: Pseudo-Tudo, Frizzie-Lizzie, Phooey-Louis, and Phony-Colonie.