pseudogothic

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English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ Gothic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pseudogothic (comparative more pseudogothic, superlative most pseudogothic)

  1. (literature, architecture) sham-Gothic
    • 1980, Marek Rostworowski, The National Museum in Cracow, the Czartoryski Collection:
      Obviously, the style of romantic pseudogothic architecture was not invented by Isabel - the building at Puławy was preceded by several similar creations abroad and in Poland.
    • 1997, Jan Bondeson, A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, page 97:
      Even a regular reader of the most dreadful pseudogothic periodicals must have felt a frisson of horror.
    • 2004, Harold Bloom, English Romantic Poetry, page 295:
      The pseudogothic trappings that disfigure the first two cantos of Childe Harold are absent in Childe Harold III and IV, which we may discuss here as a unit even though the last canto was completed two years later in Italy.
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