mock-Tudor
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editmock-Tudor (comparative more mock-Tudor, superlative most mock-Tudor)
- (architecture) Tudor revival; in the style of Tudor architecture (of buildings after the Tudor period, especially those built in the 19th or 20th century).
- 1843, “A dynamic mayor’s plans for his borough may be good for Newham, less so for London”, in The Economist, volume 404, page 52:
- [neighborhoods] like Gants Hill, with mock-Tudor houses and gardens and garages, taking with them their skills, cash and aspirations.
- 1982, Mike Leigh, Abigail’s Party, page 72:
- ANGELA: […] I like those old Tudor houses round here.
LAURENCE: No, Angela: Mock-Tudor.
ANGELA: Are they?
LAURENCE: Oh, yes. There are some real Tudor properties in Hadley Village itself. But the ones you’re thinking of are Mock-Tudor.
- 1990, Paul Greenhalgh, “Introduction”, in Modernism in Design, page 20:
- When one walks around mock-Tudor or Neo-Georgian housing estates, the natural tendency is to think not of Elizabeth and George, but of the outlook and aspirations of the people who have chosen to live there.