a. rare. [a. F. tudesque, It. tedesco:—med.L. theotisc-us, theodiscus, esp. in lingua Theotisca, Theodisca, Theudisca the German language: see TEDESCO, THEODISC, DUTCH, TEUTONIC.] German, esp. said of the language.
1804. Ranken, Hist. France, I. I. iv. 409. His native tongue was the German or Tudesque.
1833. Longf., Outre-Mer, Prose Wks. 1886, I. 92. When at length the old Tudesque language … had given place to the Langue d’Oil.
