Tudorbethan
adjEtymology Blend of Tudor + Elizabethan.
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Architecture 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:
- Related terms
- Jacobethan, mock Tudor